Word: drains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour job pressing coats in a clothing factory. Then he signed on as an unskilled laborer in Stratford, Conn. Boris Labensky, an engineer at the Sikorsky Aircraft plant, took him into his home. For eight weeks, Barsov lived with them while he dug ditches for drain pipes. It was a bitter comedown for an officer...
...More 'U.S. investment in the sterling area, particularly Point Four colonial development. Since the defense costs and dollar deficits of Egypt, India and Southeast Asia are a drain on the British economy, the U.S. might be asked to share the burden in the general interest of Middle and Far Eastern security...
...home, jotted down neat notes (appropriately in red ink) from a pile of Treasury briefs that mounted during the week from 20 to 42. He was reported, among other things, to be weighing the chances and consequences of a further slash in U.S. imports to slow the alarmingly rapid drain of his country's dollar reserves...
Moreover, Canadian oil could not be overlooked as a big item in U.S.-Canadian defense. The joint defense planners must consider the importance of Alberta's strategically placed fields, and the possibility of their relieving the drain on other oil-rich areas in case...
...only 4% of its land were properly cultivated, Brazil could feed itself. With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...