Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than an hour the President was at Dulles' bedside. For 25 minutes they talked. Ike told Dulles that he was counting on him to get back to work. Dulles gave the President the book at his bedside-What We Must Know About Communism-urged him to read it. At conversation's end the President tucked the book under his arm, stopped on his way out of the hospital to make a short statement: "... I express the thoughts and prayers of all of us that the results of his operation and the further course of treatment will...
...Florida's Governor Leroy Collins admitted that his still segregated state must initiate "voluntary, token integration" in suitable schools, or leave the when, where and how to be "dictated by the N.A.A.C.P...
...Democratic Congress would "not go back on our word" by raising REA interest rates. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson sounded a call to man the barricades against any Administration attempt to raise the interest rates: "We will fight them with beer bottles. The time has arrived when you must ask no quarter and we must give none.'' House Speaker Sam Rayburn, co-author of the 1935 act that created REA, asked plaintively: "Why not a little subsidy for the millions who, until a few years ago, were the underprivileged...
...German exports, the Federal Republic sponsors an insurance organization called Hermes, which offers exporters a guarantee against default by their customers. Thanks to Hermes (which has so far committed $600 million to underwriting Mideastern deals alone), West German businessmen can often offer credit to customers whom other Western businessmen must pass up as bad risks. Sometimes the Bonn government steps in directly to help. West Germany is about to give the Greek government $150 million in loans and credits, in a deal which commits Greece to spend two-thirds of it on German capital goods...
Where the West German businessmen must generally charge 8% interest on credits, the Communists frequently charge as little as 2½%. This is not philanthropy: in every such bargain there is a concealed political string. To pay for Communist arms and aid, Egypt's Nasser has mortgaged much of his cotton crop for years ahead. By reselling this cotton at cut prices to Western textile manufacturers (including West Germans), the Communists have driven Egyptian cotton exporters out of much of the European market, have thus deprived Egypt of a major source of foreign exchange and reduced her ability...