Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generosity has departed with U.S. power and personnel. To the West Berlin city government the Allies barked, "Balance your budget!" A second blow was an order ending U.S. direct subsidies. Henceforth Berlin must get its help from the new West German government at Bonn...
Last week Chile got fresh help from the U.S.: a $25 million Export-Import Bank credit. It would tide the Chileans over the slump in copper prices that knocked a hole in the government's expected revenues for 1949. Moreover, by making money available to pay for U.S. heavy equipment and materials, it would enable González to go forward with his program of economic development...
Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...
...became dissatisfied with her job and herself. At 24, Betty Lou felt that she had "run out of learning," because, married at 16, she had never gone beyond high school. Last month, Reporter Amster buttonholed Publisher Mark Ethridge (who also runs the Louisville Courier-Journal) and asked for help. Said she: "I don't want to be writing about kids, dogs and lollipops when...
...help Sarnoff translate his theory into practice, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis put up research funds. Then, in the School's machine shop, Sarnoff,* with the help of Dr. Leslie Silverman, began assembling transformers and rheostats. Soon they had a machine which could deliver regular pulses of an electric current. It was too small to produce a shock. But, applied to the phrenic nerves of monkeys, cats and dogs, the current made the breathing muscles work rhythmically...