Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mather reported that the Marshal's "quiet vehemence" made the meaning of this reply clear even before the interpreter had repeated it in English...
They were wrong, even though the first year of Marshall aid 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...
...Europe cannot produce as well and as efficiently as the U. S.; (2) As long as this technical backwardness continues, free trade between the continents is probably impossible. This is a reasonably short-run proposition; some day technological progress may put Europe very much back on its feet. But even ECA admits this day will...
...principal ailment of the Lampoon's and also the Record's stories is longwindedness. The authors take so many columns to get to the point that only their editors, roommates, fiancees and perhaps an occasional reviewer ever reach the end, or even the middle. On top of that, the clusive "point" frequently remains invisible right up to the cryptic signature...
...Does the Marshal expect that the war of words now being waged against him by the Cominform will be followed by a war of bullets, even as Hitler's barrage of invectives was the prelude for swift movement of panzer battalions...