Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
...Next Step. Should the West, too want an economic arrangement? Allied views differed. Some ECAmericans, led by European ECA Chief Averell Harriman, believed East-West trade would bring more benefits to the West (in raw materials, less U.S. aid, loosening of the Russian hold on satellite nations, etc.) than to the East. Others held that a restoration of trade would not pay off unless it was accompanied by an eastward advance of Western ideology. In return for economic benefits Eastern Europe must grant democratic political reforms...
...Many of whom, especially among first-and second-generation citizens, follow the results of European soccer as avidly as Europeans, bet their dimes and dollars in U.S. pools on the same matches...
...glory, Garbo had joined Producer Wanger in a new postwar trend: shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...