Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controls (TIME, Jan. 26), begged off from testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee until he had time for another look around. He wired Committee Chairman Charles Tobey: "There is evidence, superficial perhaps, but existing, that commodities show a tendency to soften. Were that to come about, the need for control would be less pressing...
...blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer Aake Ording, to fill a gap left by the world's governments. A year and a half ago, when UNRRA had closed down, member nations of the U.N. created I.C.E.F to carry on its work for children. U.N. experts figured that it would need at least $450 million to care for an estimated 20 million semi-starved and rachitic waifs for a year. The money finally assigned to I.C.E.F. amounted to only $39 million, scarcely enough to feed 4,000,000 children for six months, and with no provision whatever for medical needs...
...quantitative estimates," said a report from Washington, "but figures thus far received indicate that . . . the harvest in Europe during 1948 is likely to show an increase over that of the past two years." There were many problems of recovery, like Britain's dollar shortage and the gaping worldwide need for machinery and raw products, that a few days of fine weather could never solve. But if the winter had not insured Europe's recovery, it was certain-as one U.S. Department of Commerce official put it-that the mild weather had at least saved Europe...
...Venezuela's capital, the report spread quickly : Caracas was going to be bombed. Squads of firemen took up emergency stations. The National Guard was called out. Hundreds of families left the city for the country. Caraqueños, who have never known an air raid, need not have been panicky. President Romulo Betancourt was on top of the situation, and besides, the bombing was not due until Feb. 15, the inauguration day of his successor, Novelist Romulo Gallegos...
...only Dr. Smithy has tried the operation. Some day, some other surgeon, who will need long laboratory training, might operate on Dr. Smithy himself, whose own heart was damaged in childhood by rheumatic fever...