Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuous planning of improved production techniques. He found that European industrialists had a bias against new methods, just as U.S. producers had a bias in favor of them. In America's cities he told his hearers of ECA's success in stopping Communism, of what was being done and what remained to be done...
...come to The Netherlands at Paul Hoffman's persuasion, leaving two children in schools at home. He worked from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., running a 41-man mission, visiting plants, farms, talking with business groups, trying (as he put it) "to get four or five important things done per day, but usually settling...
Toward Unity. Thus, slowly and painfully, teaching and being taught, ECAmer-icans abroad were helping Europe pull itself together. Much indeed had yet to be done. In the process of recovery and reconstruction with ECAid, the participating nations had talked, more than acted on, unity. But they had taken two notable steps...
...British businessmen made porcelain manufacture a thriving industry-and something of an art. Then, as now, porcelains were valued more for their sentimental qualities than for their measure of esthetic worth, but sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended...
...with other kids and withdrew more & more into himself. He stayed at home with his mother, brother and three sisters, who, he says, were "all good-looking." After five weeks in the tenth grade, he left school and went to work at a series of jobs that could be done without showing his face much-in shipping rooms, basements and back rooms...