Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even better indication of how chesty the Reds felt became apparent, later in the week, in Czechoslovakia. It was clear that the Russians, while screaming about a Western Bloc, had completed an Eastern Bloc of their own. Did the West have anything like an equivalent? Certainly the Marshall Plan would, by itself, create no Western Bloc. U.S. aid aimed at giving Europe enough economic stability to work out its own politics in friendly cooperation. It put economics first...
...happened this way: Léon Blum and his Socialists had rebelled last month against measures like decontrol of consumer goods, the free market for gold and currency. To save his Cabinet, Schuman had made a costly concession. He agreed to a pet Socialist plan: withdrawal of 5,000-franc notes, which supposedly would smoke out illegal currency hoards. As soon as the announcement was made, prices went up drastically...
Disagreeable Program. Last week Cripps's chances of persuasion looked better, on paper. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress agreed in principle to the wage freeze. To make it less chilling, Cripps announced that he was giving British business one month to prepare "some plan for price and profit decreases," to match the wage-pegging...
Other U.S.-aided attempts to wipe out aftosa by killing all infected and exposed cattle had bogged down against the iron-hard resistance of the Mexican campesinos (TIME, Dec. 8). So slaughter was replaced by quarantine and vaccination; a part of the substitute plan is the fence now abuilding. From a starting point on the Gulf of Mexico, it will run across the states of San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, then southwest to the Pacific at Puerto Vallarta. North of the line, which is guarded by more than 15,000 Mexican soldiers, 1,000 Mexican and U.S. technicians, there...
Bevan's new health scheme, scheduled to go into effect July 5, is a huge expansion of the panel. All of Britain's 48,000,000 men, women & children (Northern Ireland has a separate plan) will be included; payments by workers will be more than doubled...