Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman, who was to have delivered the convocation's closing address, made an able, forthright speech in which he made a specific proposal for backward areas. Said he: "The Marshall Plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the war. It is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur Plan in Asia...
...essential that the European governments, regardless of how much or how little they control their respective national economies, have clearly in mind what they are trying to accomplish, and shape all their policies to the ends in view. This means planning. But it does not require any government to increase or decrease already existing controls over its own citizens. However, we believe that in the end this kind of planning will result in fewer rather than more controls, because it contributes to prosperity, and prosperity discourages regimentation, while depression invites...
...week's end even some of Zaim's followers were wondering what the domestic implications were. For a militant putschist, Zaim was getting off to a slow start. First he tried to get Faris el-Khouri, former Premier and Syria's delegate to the United Nations, to form a cabinet. When El Khouri refused, Zaim dissolved parliament and appointed himself temporary Premier at the head of a cabinet of "technicians." Most Syrians, sipping coffee in the bazaars and smoking their hubble-bubble pipes, took hardly any notice of the change in government. In their 4,000-year...
...first Mrs. H. read every message. But after three days, she changed her mind; some letters were spiteful and upsetting. By week's end, Mrs. H. had taken refuge in a hideaway-and Reporter Patrick had moved into a friend's apartment, to get some peace from the telephone...
...week's end, the Deutsch articles had prompted health officials to some replies and explanations. The main theme of the experts: there is no cause for alarm. No dangerously contaminated samples of milk have yet been found. Further, said a U.S. Public Health official: "Statements that DDT is responsible for causing the so-called virus X disease of man and X disease of cattle are totally without foundation. Both of these diseases were recognized before the utilization of DDT as an insecticide." Nonetheless, one Department of Agriculture warning was repeated: "DDT should not be used for insect control...