Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to find out, for example, what people think of the Marshall Plan. Are they for it or against it? Do they believe it will help or hurt conditions in their countries? Do they believe it would make war with Russia more likely? Will it stop the advance of Communist ideas? We want to know what people think about the United Nations, about a United States of Europe, about who is gaining in the present conflict between the U.S. and Russia, and which side they think will be ahead 20 years from...
...China, Marshall said: "I told them that no operation could be successful until they first had trained troops and sent these troops to battle under competent leadership. There hasn't been any lack of advice. It's been continuous and emphatic and ignored!" He listed the military help the U.S. had already provided since the arms embargo was lifted last May: 130 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 150 C46 transports and 80 light combat planes, 61,000 tons of surplus ammunition, $6,000,000 worth of air-force supplies (at 12½? on the dollar...
...that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them to all the women he knew...
...Department of Commerce announced that there would be more than 100 special "weeks" in 1948, among them National Laugh Week (to help put a smile on the map of America), Save Your Vision Week, Large Size Week (drug products...
Jews blamed anti-Semitic members of the British forces for the outrage. They drove off British police who tried to help rescue the wounded. Then, in a series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of Britons, Arabs and Jews prepared for more fighting. Said the terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi: "As from today all British personnel, military and police, entering Jewish sections, will be subject to execution...