Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stultifying? On the eve of last week's Paris conference ECA's Averell Harriman put the issue thus: "...Success [of the ECA program] would be impossible in a system made up of small, autarchic, uneconomic national trading units, each one dedicated to self-defeating self-sufficiency, each one...
Off Lancashire this week the sea was a stormy, threatening grey. Grey and stormy, too, was the future that faced 1,500 Labor Party delegates, gathered in Blackpool for the party's 48th annual conference. The slogan for the 1950 elections was: "Labor believes in Britain." The question was...
The Yemenite Jews, now 45,000 in number, take their name from the corner of Arabia where they were cut off for centuries from the rest of Jewry. In their isolation they were not touched by the edict of famed Rabbi Gershom Ben Judah ("Light of the Exile"), who, around...
The two saboteurs had been hired for 185 pesos ($92.50) by a pair of illicit lovers who were anxious to get rid of the spouse of one who was a passenger on the plane. Largo had taken a box of fish to the airline office, where it was weighed in...
As they skimmed off $275 million annually in dividends and interest, many U.S. investors wondered why more Canadians didn't get in on a good thing. Was there a lack of Canadian capital? Up to a point, there was, but the shortage was partly due to a shortage of...