Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hole In the Ice." For everyone else, there was a whole grab bag of social and economic promises: extended unemployment compensation, health insurance, reclamation, federal aid for education and housing. Except for universal military training and the European Recovery Program, there was little or nothing that Candidate Henry Wallace could not approve. By bearing down hard again on his ten-point anti-inflation program, the President was aiming right at the Republicans' most vulnerable point...
Secretary of State George Marshall went up the Hill last week to tell Congress what it should give him, in money and authority, to make his European Recovery Program workable. He went confidently, as the acknowledged master of relations with Congress. As wartime Chief of Staff, he had always got pretty much what he wanted, with few questions asked, with almost no haggling. Congressmen had a deep respect for General George Marshall...
...strategy recognized that in the long run defense of the Mediterranean would hinge largely on success of the European Recovery Program. However, while Congress debated ERP, Russian satellites might make military moves which would require military answers. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said: "In the Mediterranean we would like to keep our ships as near war standards as possible...
...clear, unequivocal answer to Soviet attempts to scuttle the European Recovery Program. For the 40 million Germans of Bizonia's eight states, General Lucius D, Clay, the U.S. commander, outlined a new form of economic government. The new government would have a two-house legislature, a six-member cabinet, a chief executive. It would have a central bank to issue currency and control credit. Its powers would be exercised through economic courts backed up by occupation armies. The goal: a beefing up of Bizonia's limping production. "These are proposals," said Clay, "not a dictate...
...next spring, General Clay hoped, the new plan-and Bizonia's production-would be rolling. An important anchor had been planted for the future stability of the European Recovery Program...