Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greek soldiers, sitting in ditches, stared incredulously at the bus and its occupants. The commissioners stared back. They saw and heard plenty to indicate that rebel leader Markos Vafiades was getting help from "abroad." Artillery officers said that Greece had never had a 65-mm. gun, such as the rebels were using. Rebel prisoners admitted that they had moved freely back & forth across the Albanian frontier. Greek Spitfire pilots said they saw a column of trucks moving toward the border from the Albanian town of Leskovik. But the "Greek Situation" would not be resolved by U.N. commissions...
Different Burmans had different ideas as to what independence meant : a popular actress advocated high-caliber plays which would reform wayward girls; a monk hoped that Buddhism would flourish. But even with British help, the new state will have a hard time enjoying the blessings of sovereignty. Twice a battleground in World War II, Burma emerged with its oil refineries in ruins, its rice and teak exports paralyzed...
Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...
...dawned in 1911. Max Eastman, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Artist Art Young and other idealistic radicals joined the Masses to help their bright socialist dream come true. Suspended for opposing America's entry into World War I, the Masses reappeared in 1918 as the Liberator. In 1926 it became New Masses, pledged to avoid "political affiliations or propaganda obligations." As late as 1936 it could get, for little or no money, such writers as Dreiser and Dos Passes, such poets as Millay and William Rose Benet, such artists as Gropper and Groth...