Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting Europe's coal shortage Professor Mason termed the most pressing difficulty. "England is now out of the coal export market," he explained, and the Ruhr Valley is operating at half the pre-war level. Poland, the third great source of Europe's solid fuel, is now shipping the greater part of its output East...
Russian moves to gain a voice in top-level discussion of the Marshall proposals, plus President Truman's efforts to begin implementing the plan with concrete discussions of its domestic effects, all point to a rapidly developing situation for which a basic foundation has hardly been laid...
...more than it is importing. Up to now, the gap has been filled by hoarded dollar balances, gold reserves, loans and credits. But these dollar balances are being used up so fast that in Manhattan last week, Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs warned: "The level of our foreign trade in the immediate future will be largely determined by the volume of American aid and assistance. At the moment, there remain less than $5 billion of unused governmental commitments, plus the resources of the International Bank and Fund...
...Reviewing all the sources of payments now in sight, it is obvious that they will not support the present level of exports from the U.S. for any considerable period of time." In short, the part which the bank could play in world reconstruction-or in rebuilding world trade-was shockingly small...
Across the level fields of Comanche County, as far as the eye could see, the wheat nodded under the Oklahoma sun. When a breeze stirred the golden grain swayed in long waves. A breeze was welcome; sweat, running down the back, made an itchy paste of the chaff blowing from the two self-propelled combines that were cutting and threshing the wheat on Farmer Wilbur Morrison's 400 acres...