Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the U.S. did not seem to realize how much Europe-and the rest of the world-depended on that determination. In a nation which prides itself on great deeds accomplished offhand, the launching of ECA was accepted almost matter-of-factly. What ECA meant to Europe was summed up last week by London's Economist...
...Senator Bridges made a proposal for distributing the pension fund. His plan: $100-a-month pensions for miners over 62 with 20 years' service, who retired after May 28, 1946. Lewis had wanted to give $100 pensions to all miners over 60 with 20 years' service, no matter when they quit. Van Horn had never made any proposal; he had simply maintained that Lewis' plan was not legal and could never be supported on the 10? royalty which the operators are required to pay on every ton of coal mined...
...Very Worried." But the real battle was still the battle for the roads. For the Jews in Jerusalem, it was a matter of survival. Each day food grew scarcer, bread lines longer. Those most immediately threatened by the Arab stranglehold were 1,500 Orthodox Jews living in the Old City, surrounded by blockading Arabs. What food they got was coming through in British convoys...
Their prayer started traditionally enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...
...passage by Congress of the European Recovery Program on April 2. Since then the American Ambassador has been speaking all over Italy, insisting that there will be no more American aid in the event of a Communist victory. Whether this sort of interference is helping is a matter of speculation, even though it serves to refute the Communist assertion that American aid will continue no matter who wins, Chances of a victory of the anti-Communists were somewhat bettered by the offer of the Western powers on March 20 to return Trieste to Italy. The gain lies more...