Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lean and hungry economy of Britain, coal and steel production was climbing. In the Ruhr, coal production reached a daily rate of 300,000 tons-up 40% since last summer. These were signs of Europe's efforts to help itself-as it should and must under ERP. They were also indications that the U.S. could make progress in its colossal gamble abroad...
This attitude was only one of many obstacles the U.S. had yet to overcome. It could not overcome them all at once. But last week the U.S. Congress also inched ahead by agreeing to the grant-in-aid which would help see Europe through the winter (see The Congress...
...later, five men seized her, drove her away in an auto, beat her and raped her. Five men of mixed Hawaiian and Asiatic blood were arrested and accused of the crime. When they were let out on bail, Thalia Massie's Kentucky-born, Annapolis-bred husband, with the help of Thalia's socialite mother and two enlisted men, kidnaped one of them-a massive man named Joe Kahahawai. They shot him and drained out his blood in a water-filled bathtub...
Then, slicing into a juicy pear, Togliatti took a good firm Communist bite at the Marshall Plan. No, in the long run it could not help Italy. Why? He said that he here agreed with classic liberal economics: it would make the country a charity case, dependent on American aid, and sluggish in developing its own healthy economic character. Italian export industries, he argued, should be filling old German markets in eastern Europe-"countries which are thirsting for our goods." "But," he charged: "America prefers to keep those markets sealed up for the industry of western Germany that...
Haman may not win his claim on the clouds as private property, but his maneuver may help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped from airplanes may change the distribution-perhaps in the Rocking F Ranch's favor...