Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither the big businessman in Boston nor the worker in Seattle seemed to realize that only a puny portion of foreign aid is for genuine economic assistance (in the sense of "plows for Afghanistan"). In the $3.8 billion mutual security budget for the current fiscal year, for example, only $385 million is listed for such purposes. Nearly all the rest goes for military aid and "defense support" and, as such, is more defense than aid. No one said much about cutting defense. Who wants to be against strength...
Throughout all the negotiations, there has been an East-West consensus that disarmament, being begun in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, must proceed by stages. Each stage would have to be completed to the satisfaction of all participants, before any further progress could be made. The lesson of Yalta has been well learned, perhaps too well for the summit conference to have had much effect on East-West relations...
Shahn, did not, however, criticize the necessity for conservative artistic elements, which "keep the treasure of the past." He emphasized that the "visionary artists" and the conservatives must reach mutual rapport and balance...
...demonstrated only one problem in attempts to cut the budget: no member of Congress wants to cut where his constituents are apt to bleed. There is a much more serious problem. To make any major cut in the budget, the Congress would have to slash hard at defense, mutual security, farm programs or welfare. And in the halls of Congress, that is like being against motherhood...
...frustrated urge to talk back to the commercials got a chance to do so this week-through its government. After six months of monitoring by its new radio-TV unit, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission began issuing complaints charging advertisers with using phony spot commercials on NBC, CBS and Mutual Radio (as well ajs newspaper...