Word: making
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...imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually without debate, 125 to 1. The senate and Governor Beauford Jester were expected to make...
Voznesensky was a protégé of the late Andrei Zhdanov. His removal may be explained by the death of his patron, or by charges made before the Supreme Soviet last week that Russian industry was producing things easy to make rather than the things needed by the people...
Said OEEC's secretary general, Robert Marjolin of France: "It would be a vain task to attempt to write a new long-term program . . . until such time as the participating countries make certain fundamental political-economic changes . . . When these adjustments are made . . . without doubt we shall again decide to project in figures this mutuality of national policies ... To do it now would be pointless labor...
...Prudent Husband. Britain is now trying to buy most of what she needs from the sterling areas. She has reduced her dollar imports by 25%; the other major OEEC nations by only 15%.* Last week Cripps proposed that the others should make a further reduction of 10% to match Britain. At this point ECA's Averell Harriman, who had been itching to join the discussions, was invited in, and promptly threw his weight with the continental high-volume traders...
...reflect than Cyrus Hamlin and his Protestant missionary friends. They translated the New Testament into Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed on to form centers of Western thought in the Greek Orthodox state...