Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East chess game, he has a powerful piece-a well-trained, wellarmed, British-led army, the 10,000-strong Arab Legion, most efficient Arab fighting force in the Middle East. In a bold move he might use the Legion (already two-thirds of it is in Palestine to help the British keep order) to seize chunks, or all, of Palestine for himself...
Even such sums, spent for agriculture, would probably not satisfy the Latin Americans, who also want dollars to help them build industry. In preparation for Bogota, therefore, Bill Pawley hoped to sell the U.S. State Department the Colombian scheme for a U.S.-financed Inter-American bank to make hemispheric-development loans...
...last year at New Jersey Law College, Ozzie organized a band to help pay his way. By the time he got his diploma (1930), he had decided that his eight-piece hand looked a lot bigger than a lawyer's shingle. In a year he was making more money than a Supreme Court justice...
...American Help. It was still too early to tell whether Mayer's drastic program would boost exports, stop domestic inflation, and bring hoarded gold and dollars out of hiding to bolster the country's monetary system. Said Mayer: he would need about four months before he could tell whether the program would work...
...gave him some help. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder last week gave in to French demands for a look at bank accounts of Frenchmen in the U.S. U.S. bankers grumbled at this violation of depositors' confidence. This would enable the French government to lay its hands on perhaps $300 to $400 million by forcing the holders to turn them in for francs...