Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued. "Well then, I guess you know they're having an hour exam next Tuesday. Anyhow, I haven't done any of the reading for it in fact, I haven't been to the lectures for about six weeks. Can you help...
Even then, its party line was beginning to show. Within another year there was no concealing it. In 1939 the New Masses appealed for funds to "help the fight to keep America out of the imperialist war"; in 1943 it posed as "one of America's staunchest win-the-war publications...
There were only a few examples of the kind of industrial statesmanship that was needed to break the chain. Gambling that business would continue good, young Henry Ford II and International Harvester's Fowler McCormick both tried to help by reducing their prices. Both were forced to put their prices up again. It was not till year's end that another potent hand was laid on the chain. General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson announced that G.E. was cutting prices from 3 to 10% on about half its consumer products, an estimated saving...
...task for U.S. factories and farms for 1948, big as it looked on paper, was not as big as the job it had been doing. In 1948, it would get more outside help in supplying food, the burden that had put the greatest strain on the U.S. There were good crops in Australia and Argentina, and even hope that Europe, after eight years of bad crops, would have a normal harvest. The peak of the export boom had passed and, with a loosening of raw materials all around, there would be more goods for the U.S. in 1948. While...
Actually the only magic nostrum was more production, which would help the world to help itself. Looking at the export-import gap, no trader could soundly think that this was going to be an easy job. In 1947, the U.S. had made a tiny down payment on the job of reviving world trade. It had agreed to cut tariffs. Tariff cutting was meaningless unless other nations were able to make the goods to sell the U.S. And 1947 had shown that the gap between what they received and what they shipped was too big to cross without a new kind...