Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line with this, he urged prompt passage of the Marshall Plan in Congress. "We can not help being disturbed about the timetable," he said. "The days between now and April 18, when the Italian elections will be held, are rapidly slipping...
...Brunswick Hotel was one of several housing projects provided by the University at the end of the war to help house the large number of married veterans then entering college...
...Bizonia last week. The Joint Export-Import Agency, which directs foreign trade for the U.S.-British occupation economy, upped the period foreign businessmen are allowed to stay from 15 to 30 days during any six-month period. It also promised them comfortable hotels, good food, taxis, and help in bartering with the Germans. The businessmen can send in food and raw materials in return for finished or semi-manufactured goods...
...dollars, above the $17 million limit, as British films earn in the U.S. (in 1947 they earned $4 million). But even here Wilson had won a canny advantage. U.S. producer-exhibitors for the first time would have an interest in promoting British films in the U.S., because that would help them get more dollars out of England...
...many such jobs, Lord admits, Argentina will need U.S. help. By lavish spending, Argentina has pretty well used up its once fat foreign exchange hoard. For $5 wheat it now gets mostly I.O.U.s. Even the millions the U.S. is likely to spend in Argentina for ERP foodstuffs will help little, warns Lord, unless Argentina is allowed to buy U.S. machinery with it. "Steel," says he, "is the key to Argentina's program, and they will have...