Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About that time, he began working for an underground paper, For Freedom, which was distributed to 2,500 Czechs three or four times a week, depending on the availability of newsprint and a printing plant. Halla wrote articles, many of them based on "Voice of America" broadcasts which the editors were able to get despite Russian jamming; he also translated the news in TIME. "It was one magazine that was still free, democratic," he said...
...second year of the European Recovery Program, $45 million for economic assistance to Greece and Turkey and $912,500,000 for U.S. occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World War II: $20 billion". Former enemies Italy, Germany and Japan got roughly a third of the handout...
...glare of floodlights, a big four-motored C-54 dropped down onto Berlin's Tempelhof field, turned off the runway and swung around in the wake of the yellow jeep with the big red-lighted sign: "Follow me." At the unloading stand, its crew climbed down and workmen began unloading its cargo of coal. The Berlin airlift had ended...
Dave Gregory, last year's freshman captain, led the Crimson scoring. Crossing the finish line after O'Connell, Gregory beat out Dick Everett, number four in the race and number two for Harvard...
...freshman squad, although composed mainly of men who have never before competed in cross-country, managed to bunch three finishers after the first four Tufts harriers. First to finish for the Crimson was Goodwin Clark, one of its few veteran runners...