Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointed to the economic help for Latin America already going forward under the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, but he reaffirmed the U.S. desire to see "the job ahead . . . done through private initiative." He approved the results of such U.S.-sponsored economic surveys as last winter's Abbink Mission to Brazil, and emphasized the State Department's readiness to send out others like...
...such programs, however, the U.S. would be guided by one underlying principle. Said Acheson, "Progress will come most rapidly to nations that help themselves vigorously...
...developed a machine which bypassed the heart and lungs of cats for 20 minutes, with no ill effects. When he resumed the work after wartime duty in the South Pacific, Dr. Gibbon won the backing of Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. With the help of I.B.M. engineers he has improved the machine, made it more nearly automatic...
...question among Americanists (experts on New World anthropology) is: How original were the American Indians? The orthodox theory is that the first Indians immigrated from Asia (via Alaska) in the cultural nude and built the civilizations of Mexico and Peru without outside help. A minority theory agrees that the original immigrants were pretty bare of culture, but insists that Indian civilization got plenty of helpful hints from across the Pacific...
...sound an alarm. They had no commercial jet planes under construction, or even on order, although their drawing boards were full of sketches. U.S. airlines could not afford the immense cost of a new transport estimated as high as $50 million. Both planemakers and airlines looked to Washington for help, but Washington had not made up its mind what to do. Last year, when the planemakers first woke up to Britain's challenge, they had tried to get Congress to pass a "prototype" bill under which the Federal Government would pay for experimental commercial planes. But the bill died...