Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent need of the government armies in Manchuria for ammunition and spare parts to use in their American arms and equipment is one which cannot be filled in a leisurely manner. It requires immediate action. President Truman should act at once as President Roosevelt acted after Dunkirk, when the British and French were desperately short of munitions. President Roosevelt then had certain stocks of the U.S. Army declared no longer essential for use by the Army. They could then legally be sold, and vast quantities were sold to Great Britain at approximately 10? on the dollar. We have hundreds...
During the next three years China will need to import large quantities of American cotton, tobacco, wheat, oil, gasoline and many manufactured articles. She will therefore need credits. The highest figure for such necessary credits given by American and Chinese economic experts is $250 million a year-a tiny fraction of what is said to be Europe's requirements. Let us scale that down to $200 million and budget for our total Three Year Plan $600 million of credits for purchases in the U.S. from this autumn to the autumn...
...Need. Like the majority in Lota, Juan is a Communist. His union is Communist too. In the past it has staged some violent strikes, lost every time. Last week, the union's tone was strangely moderate. Its leaders seemed to take seriously the claims of the Chilean and British owners that costs were high,* and bound to remain so as long as machinery ordered in the U.S. failed to arrive...
...chairman of the world trading Chase National Bank, Winthrop W. Aldrich likes to apply his banker's sense to world problems. Last week at the annual meeting of the American Bankers' Association in Atlantic City, he applied it to the Marshall Plan. The great need, said he, was to make sure that the plan was carried out "in a businesslike manner...
...racial relations. Usually this advice contains no indication that the donor appreciates the institutional and historical framework within which change must be effected; and all too often it reeks self-righteousness which is by no means justified. To show that the Northern escutcheon is not without blot, one need search no further than Cambridge, itself, seat of culture and learning, to find an instance of social discrimination which occurred only last Spring...