Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet itself is an education in present-day foreign trade. After telling how the Marshall Plan originated, giving its basic features, administrative setup, and commodity allotments to specific countries, the book carefully explains the role of U.S. business in the Plan and the effect EGA will have on it. Author Gubin devotes 13 pages to an explanation of how foreign missions in the U.S. make their purchases, how to locate foreign buying prospects, methods of payment and the documents required. He tells how to go about selling goods to U.S. Government agencies and even gives a list of key personnel...
That night, in a speech broadcast from Manhattan, General Clay supplied more facts & figures to explain his confidence. In the four months since the Allied currency reform was put into effect, he reported, the total production of Western Germany had risen a staggering 35%. Steel production was up from an annual rate of 2,500,000 to 7,000,000 tons; coal, from 275,000 tons to more than 300,000 tons a day. Said Clay: "Everywhere labor and management have new hope, and soon Germany's recovery will be felt in filling the trade vacuum which has existed...
...government published a White Paper describing Britain's export-import program for 1948-49; it left no one breathless. Its figures showed, however, that the British people and the U.S. dollars they were getting under the Marshall Plan had been working hard and to good effect. Production in all key sectors of the nation's economy was substantially higher than in 1947. Agriculture, in spite of bad weather, was up 25% above the prewar level; industry was up 20%. Exports were 34% greater than they were ten years...
...Purple started out with impressive victories over Georgetown and Syracuse, then lost on successive Saturdays to Dartmouth, Brown, and Colgate. Harvard's initial triumph over Columbia has been followed by setbacks at the hands of Cornell, Army, and Dartmouth. Today's game will have a tremendous effect on the way both clubs finish the season...
...service offered as with the amount offered and the price charged. Such an investigation, if it found ways to improve the Hygiene Department, would obviously be valuable. And if its sole result were to give the Department a clean bill of health, that too would have the valuable effect of restoring student confidence in the Hygiene Department and of stopping criticism that cannot help but undermine the morale of the Department and its patients...