Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot be set in the frame of an old picture...
...problem of quantity. Whatever our shortcomings in this regard, we have a higher proportion of our young people in higher education than any country I can think of; and we certainly have more teachers and more square feet per student in bigger, newer buildings than any other nation in the world." ¶ "The educators of America will be entitled to the support they demand when they can show that they know where they are going and why. The . . . report . . . suggests that the time is still...
...unobtrusive as a well-trained butler, the U.S. Public Health Service moves quietly about its job of doctoring for the nation. Unless there is some sudden medical miching malicho (an outbreak of smallpox in New York, or plague in California), the public sees little of its day-to-day workings. Yet the P.H.S. has helped improve the health of every man, woman & child in the U.S. Last week, few people noticed that the P.H.S. was celebrating its 150th birthday...
...newsreels for editing before their ordinary biweekly releases. (Says Movietonews Editor Gerald Sanger: "It'll be like D-day all over again.") The Technicolor will be processed on a 24-hour basis. There will be 16 separate versions of it, each highlighting the athletes of a different nation and each in the language of that nation. (Red Barber, Ted Husing and Bill Stern will handle the American language.) The Games end Aug. 14; the world premiere of Rank's XIV Olympiad-The Glory of Sport will be held in London's West End on Sept...
Steady Beat. The American Bankers Association felt the nation's credit pulse, found the beat normal. Although total consumer credit stood at a record $14,000,000,000, "it is far below the prewar peak in terms of national income," said the bankers. Best news: installment credit on automobiles, refrigerators, etc. still lagged $600,000,000 behind the 1941 peak...