Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME reader who raises pure bred Holsteins and Guernseys in Brockport, N.Y., writes: "I would like to hire a displaced person. There is just one major requirement: He must be a man who loves cattle. I will furnish the man with a house, electricity for all purposes except heat, such milk as he wishes to use, and I will pay him $100 a month...
Hoffman briskly nailed down the Communists' long-standing charge that ECA was a U.S. plot to divide Europe, by urging "the greatest possible stimulation of trade" between Western and Eastern Europe (except for military items). He underlined his point by allotting ECA dollar credits for purchases in Czechoslovakia and Finland. Asked about Polish coal and Yugoslav lumber, Hoffman answered: "We want you to buy in Europe, whether or not it's behind the Iron Curtain...
...master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot be set in the frame of an old picture or traced on an old design." Hoffman observed afterward: "They all said 'yes' except one or two, who said...
...approached the target he let down a powder charge on the wire, and touched it off with a spark from two flashlight batteries. The resulting bang was heard for half a mile around. U.N. was not visibly affected, except that a guard, who disliked loud noises, complained of a stomachache and was sent home...
...Except for the end result-a platform and a party leader for the next election-the convention will bear little resemblance to U.S. national party meetings. There will be no public gallery, no bands, no dancing girls, no door prizes, no keynote speech, no nominating speeches and, if Chairman Fogo has his way, no demonstrations. Nominations will be opened as soon as the three-day convention starts-by submission in writing to the chairman. Any two delegates in the hall may nominate a candidate...