Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated [TIME, June 9] that the proposed cost of a U.M.T. program would amount to nearly $2 billion annually. We wonder what would happen if we doubled our educational program. Two billion dollars yearly would almost do that. We wonder how far $2 billion would go towards feeding the hungry peoples of the world. Could a lasting peace be established if $2 billion yearly were given to the church for advancing Christianity in foreign lands? . . . Would $2 billion lick cancer...
...when Britain's "Stevenson plan" to restrict rubber production ran up prices to more than $1 a lb. Recalling those days, a Malayan planter last week wrote to the Singapore Straits Times: "One can hardly blame the Americans if they decline to allow that sort of thing to happen twice...
...Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that he has sent his wife to live with her mother in the country because he can't afford to keep...
...will meet you at the frontier," rasped Rakosi. "You must place yourself at the disposal of the authorities to answer the people's court. Tell me at once where and when you will enter the country, lest anything should happen to you when you cross the frontier...
Sooner or later, it was bound to happen: Journalist John Gunther, who has made a tidy fortune exploring the "insides" of Europe, Asia and Latin America, would some day try to get "inside" the U.S. He has, at last-about as far inside as he ever gets. His conclusion (in a phrase he picked up from Robert E. Sherwood): the U.S. is "lousy with greatness...