Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Agriculture computed one item in the cost of keeping the nation's farmers happy. In the past five years, it announced last week, the Government has taken a $170 million loss on 196 million bushels of surplus potatoes (TIME, Aug. 9). Because the 80th Congress extended price support levels of potatoes until the whole 1948 crop was marketed, the Government was now buying potatoes at the rate of $4,000,000 a week...
...rift was deep enough to keep the Yugoslav Communist Party congress in session until 2 a.m., denouncing the Cominform, on the night before a ten-nation Danube conference met in Belgrade. Marshal Tito turned his back on the Danube conference, dominated by the Russians, and went off to resume the vacation at Bled which had been interrupted by the Cominform attack on him. Belgrade's greeting to the Danubian delegates was notably cool-no outsize pictures of Soviet leaders, no special triumphal arches in the streets...
This week, U.N. Palestine Mediator Count Bernadotte laid the refugees' plight before the Security Council, insisting that Israel take back the Arabs "despite the enormous difficulties." Israeli officials disagreed. As a struggling new nation on a war footing, they said, Israel could not afford large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
Britons sweated in record-breaking heat and a torment of national pride. The nation that had cradled the Industrial Revolution bristled at the thought that it needed industrial advice. Murmured one observer: "It's the psychological reaction of a once-great power when she realizes she's got to be dependent on another...
...What is the need for a council of this kind?" asked Anthony Eden. "How can any industrial country give us instructions on how to conduct our business?" Communist Willie Gallacher backed Eden, shouting "A sellout!" Cripps's own Socialist supporters asked if the nationalization of iron and steel would be delayed if U.S. private enterprise was called in as adviser. The fears and frustrations of a dogged, weary nation came tumbling out. Was this council an economic instrument whereby America could keep a hold on Britain through EGA? Would it cut British exports? Would it give Americans a competitive...