Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Scotland's Renfrew Airfield, a 7-oz. plover with Kamikaze tendencies flew head-on into a London-bound British European Airways Dakota and brought the big aircraft to earth for repairs. In Suffolk, meanwhile, an armed task force of 100 British countrymen so far forgot their sporting instincts as to go after rapidly multiplying British foxes with guns...
Seventeen European countries got together in Paris in July, 1947, worked out the machinery for the Marshall Plan, and decided how long U. S. aid might have to go on. The target date they picked was June...
...produced a fine and eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
...officials, who take a nice practical look at such things, balance high living standards and low unemployment against communism. There is very good evidence to back up the head of ECA's controller's office in Paris when he said "Marshall Plan-aid has reduced Communist pressure in every European country...
...European authors and English teachers are interested chiefly in the courses on the American novel, drama, and poetry, while a group of highly talented musicians is having its first contact with American made through composer David Diamond...