Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Future negotiators might be able to answer some of the problems raised by the Ford plan. But the basic pattern had been set. Trying to avoid a fourth round of wage rises, U.S. industry had no alternative but to agree to the large, new experiment in one way or another and hope for the best...
There were still some details to complete before MAP supplies started flowing abroad. Congress had yet to appropriate the money which it had authorized. The North Atlantic defense council had to approve its integrated defense plan and each nation had to sign agreements promising not to sell or transfer MAP arms without U.S. permission. MAP did not even have a director-ex-Ambassador James Bruce had not yet been officially nominated by the President. But MAP planners hoped to ship the first materiel by year's end or, with luck, by Thanksgiving...
...industry and giving "moral and material support to the Communist insurrection in China." The Russians, who denounced the Chinese charge as "pitiful babble," wanted to place it last on the agenda: China, backed by the U.S., wanted to put it third, ahead of Russia's phony peace plan. After a bitter, weary three-hour debate, the Chinese motion was finally assigned fifth place, ahead of Indonesia...
Prescription. Bernays offered no cureall, but he mapped what is probably the most ambitious and detailed strategy yet designed to lift the theater's prestige and boost its business. If ever made to work on Broadway-a stronghold of unenlightened self-interest-his plan would turn a collection of hit-hungry gamblers into an efficiently self-regulated industry with uniform standards...
According to a transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union...