Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm reported that he had had a fine time. The girl had turned out to be quite a skier. Where was she now?" "I don't know. We said goodbye and she went back to work...
...Stuttgart's largest billboard agencies. They not only rifled the safe but stole a batch of applicants' letters. "I wonder," mused Agency Boss Erwin Schaeuffele, "whether the burglars won't succeed in winning some of my lady applicants. Many of them are pretty desperate, you know...
Teeth In the Harbor. With the champ gone, the Tory seconds swarmed in on Bevan like an army of Lilliputians-but in vain. Why and how, they wanted to know, had Bevan come to be so inaccurate in his estimates. Protested one Tory: "If a business firm or a contractor made such a ghastly error, he would go bankrupt...
Five Years More. IIAA has also sponsored 41 cooperative programs for passing on U.S. know-how to Latin Americans in agriculture, education, public health and sanitation. Most of them, like Brazil's great SESP public-health program (TIME, Sept. 13), have contributed to Latin American development and have also served as striking examples of what could be done. All have been jointly financed by the U.S. and the cooperative governments. Since the war, many have languished for lack of funds, but this week President Truman urged Congress to give IIAA a $50 million transfusion-enough for five more years...
Thorp's committee was concerned only with the know-how part of the program. Elsewhere in Washington, men were trying to figure how best to coax U.S. capital. Some of the proposals...