Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First, Letters, then I thumb through the issue looking at the pictures until I get to Business, which I read. Then I turn to Religion, to Sport, and after that I go to the front and read straight through to the back cover...
...sound of dispute was loudest in Washington. The President, unmoved by signs of deflation, still demanded an anti-inflation bill. In defense of this view, Administration Economist Leon Keyserling assured the House-Senate Committee on the Economic Report with some fervor last week that the boom could go on through 1949. But he qualified this and almost everything else he said with such a muddy flow of technical phrases that in the end he seemed to have uttered only one word...
...bill for the next 15 months. Summoned to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
...Acheson, had altered "the political atmosphere of an entire continent." Added W. Averell Harriman, ECA's European ambassador: "Hope, and the will to resist tyranny, were ebbing in Europe in 1947. They are flowing again today. It is this-the will to live as free men and to go forward toward a future which, while it cannot be precisely foreseen, can yet be believed in-which has arrested the spread of reactionary Communist aggression . . . The pressures in Europe are beginning to reverse...
Under questioning, Administrator Hoffman admitted frankly that he could not furnish final breakdowns to show where all of the EGA money would go, but he emphasized that the totals had been revised "downward again & again." Few seemed inclined to dispute him. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, a man with a burning aversion to blank checks, conceded that the estimates looked "just about right...