Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight of Europe's displaced persons has of course been getting a great deal of attention-from Congress, from the press as a whole, from organizations, from individuals anxious to help. A pleasing indication of this interest is the response from TIME readers to the Zielezinski story. During the past few weeks a good many of you have written to TIME to ask how you can help displaced persons admitted to this country. For example...
...executive of a machine tool company in a small city in Ohio tells us that "several families in this community are in need of domestic help. It is quite possible that some of the young women entering this country could find security in lovely surroundings should they be interested in this type of work...
Perhaps for the benefit of other TIME readers who might care to help, we should print here the addresses of the United Service for New Americans and the Catholic Committee for Refugees. The first is 15 Park Row, the second 265 West 14th Street - both in New York City...
...Colonial Under Secretary David Rees-Williams banged his fist on a table and growled: "I'm not having any private enterprise interfering with these developments." On the other hand, the government had neither the money nor the experience to go through with its developments unless it had the help of private enterprise...
...Correspondent Lubar conducted an informal poll by asking a Kashmiri if he knew what Pakistan was. He answered: "The place that belongs to Jinnah." Did he know what India was? "Yes, the place that belongs to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru." Which did he prefer? "The one who gives me most help...