Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Question number three: What good is there to an organization that has been speechifying for a year while getting at none of its objectives! Answer: On the national level, NSA's main work will be done through its Regional Offices, which were created only two months ago. On the international level, objectives have been approached. NSA is working with the State Department on implementation of the Fulbright Bill, which will provide European educations for many Americans. Last summer, it was largely responsible for the student ships which carried several thousand students to Europe and back...
...Truman's program is one that will be support by the people only if they rise above themselves and their special interests, even as the President rose above the ordinary level of political life in presenting the program. He offered a multiplicity of proposals which included: 1) consumer rationing of products in short supply 2) price ceilings on certain basic commodities 3) wage ceilings for the industries that produce such goods 4) strengthened rent controls 5) allocation of scarce commodities 6) regulation of speculative trading on commodity exchanges 7) restoration of consumer credit controls 8) measures to conserve and make...
...green-carpeted office the first morning at a quarter to nine. As Director of the Office of American Republics Affairs (ARA), he knew he had his work cut out for him. Besides riding herd on 20 U.S. Ambassadors south of the border, he will be the top-level State Department contact for Latin American Ambassadors assigned to Washington...
...Critics of radio often speak of 'The People's Air.' Yet they seem to refuse to face the facts about 'The People's Taste.' Such criticisms are really criticisms of the American educational system for not raising the 'cultural level' of Americans, for not getting them interested in 'the better things' when they are young. Radio then gets the blame for this failure...
...save dollars, Britain, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. flue-cured tobacco (54% of all flue-cured exports last year), abruptly canceled $25 million of scheduled purchases. The price, which had already fallen after earlier cancellations, began to approach the level at which the Government is required to support it. Tobacco markets shut down while Washington made up its mind what to do. Then Washington showed why anyone who gambles in commodities has the odds-and the Government-on his side...