Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third time in two weeks, Harry Truman found a way to help Tito's famine-threatened Yugoslavia. From the North Atlantic defense funds the President took $16 million to help feed 32 Yugoslav divisions, arguing that it "will contribute . . . to the security of the North Atlantic area...
...defense, for a total this year of $43 billion; a $4 billion tax bill with a 75% bite on excess profits (see BUSINESS); $250 million more for the H-bomb; extension of rent control, which expires on Dec. 31, unless Congress acts; and up to $75 million to feed Tito (see above). It was a program to keep even a regular session at work for months...
...more basic and much more immortal than Mao or Stalin. Jealously of America's wealth, symbolized by the 200 million bushels of what and 100 million pounds of butter in storage of the Community Credit Corporation; fear of our power, both military and economic--these are the things which feed the fire of hate for us all over the world, and which make bearable to half the world the immeasurable oppression of totalitarian dictatorship; for, what won't we bear while we struggle? Jealousy and fear, these are the causes of aggression, and these we must fight...
...important political symbol," explained Mr. Truman. "Tito controls the largest fighting force in Europe except the Soviet Union and . . . these forces constitute an important element in the defense of Western Europe against Soviet aggression." The President wanted Congress, when it reconvened Nov. 27, to approve emergency funds to feed the drought-stricken Yugoslavs. As a stopgap until Congress took up the matter, ECA had already diverted $11,500,000 worth of flour from its Italian and German stocks. The Export-Import Bank rushed off a quick $6,000,000 for drought relief out of the $55 million in U.S. credits...
...Russia down to equality with the U.S. Some observers believe that this temporary Russian disadvantage is a powerful factor in persuading the Kremlin to postpone war for five or ten years. Others doubt the conclusion since, in any case, the U.S.S.R. will have as much manpower as it can feed and supply...