Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donated ?1,000 ($4,000) to the Lord Mayor's London Air Raid Distress Fund...
...trainloads of provisions, paying for them with 1,000,000,000 francs worth of "bonds." To French hopes that at least some of the confiscated goods would be returned, the Nazi welfare authorities replied: "It is not the conqueror's business to relieve the world misery and distress caused by the fault of the vanquished...
...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...
...sugar islands have depended on Europe even more. In Asia, the huge Javanese crop is facing a smaller market in India (which can now turn exporter), is backing up close to the Philippines and Hawaii. Thus, if the U. S. assumes the job of taking care of distress commodities inside the Monroe Doctrine area (TIME, July 1), sugar will stand near the head of the line...
...last week these hemispheric distress signals, visible far beyond the Chicago and Kansas City grain pits, fluttered over the whole U. S. economy. Because Latin America could no longer sell to Europe, its purchases in the U. S. fell off by $10,000,000 as early as April, have remained well under the first-quarter peak. Ecuador, for lack of foreign exchange, last week had to duck out of her reciprocal trade agreement and cut some imports by 50%. The Pan American Coffee Conference, meeting in Manhattan last week, tried to decide what to do with...