Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had launched the Intra-European Payments plan, also known as "the little EGA." This is an important financial device which has had marked success loosening log jams in European trade. The Italians, for example, cannot buy goods from Belgium because they lack Belgian currency. The Belgians, therefore, agree to grant the Italians the necessary exchange to buy Belgian goods. Then EGA in Washington reimburses the Belgians with an equivalent grant in ECAid. Thus the U.S. dollar works "twice"-for the Belgians, and through them for the Italians. This device has released some 810 million U.S. dollars of intra-European...
...Laurent was one of the first to speak out for a North Atlantic Treaty. Last week, as the pact was about to be signed in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Prime Minister St. Laurent faced the ever-present problem of the democratic leader: would his own Parliament buy the plan which he had helped sell to others...
...room they took was part of the apartment of Mamma Adele, who believed them when they told her they were married. Perhaps if they had gone to a more impersonal place, the original plan would have worked out better. But Adele's apartment was a home, redolent of strong emotions. In it lived Adele, a tough-faced old woman, "all leather and insomnia"; her husband Ugo, a gentle soul who felt in his bones the sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions...
Laski will discuss "The Role of Labor Unions in Politics," after which a panel of experts will interrogate him. Although Forum members have sent a letter of protest to the School Committee they do not expect a reversal of the decision and are continuing with the Sanders plan...
Opponents of proportional representation have been trying to effect its repeal since passage of the revised Uniform Charter Act in 1938. That law gave reform-minded cities in the state a choice among five types of municipal government-the different charters were termed "plans." Plan E was one that provided for city council election by proportional representation; the voter marks his ballot by numbering candidates in his order of preference. Thus any bill aimed at that provision would cripple the plan and make it an unnecessary addition to the Charter Act, since plan D carries the same provisions, but without...