Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THAT COULD BE SAID, and said again; yet nobody could keep his mind on the Marshall Plan and the Italian elections all the time. There were other preoccupying concerns...
...Britain, birdwatchers reported that several chiffchaffs had been sighted in the southern counties. Sir John Anderson, until recently chairman of the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy, warned the House of Commons to plan now for civilian defense in an atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats...
...compared with 86% of U.S. adults who have heard of the Marshall Plan (according to a current Roper Survey), the international survey found the following numbers familiar with the plan abroad: France, 90%; Sweden, 85%; Britain and Switzerland, 80%; Italy, 74%; U.S. Zone of Germany...
...Marshall Plan, for months one of Europe's few promises of hope, had at last become reality by act of the U.S. Congress. John Osborne, chief of TIME'S London bureau, cabled the following account of how Europeans took the news...
...Jung, commander in chief of the Swedish armed forces, of trying "to use the Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists...