Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were outnumbered this year by half a million Britons, 900,000 Belgians, 400,000 Swiss, 150,000 Scandinavians and 90,000 Spaniards. The 200,000 from the U.S., however, had left some $78 million behind to provide France with her biggest single chunk of hard currency outside the Marshall Plan. The 1949 American tourists were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still 100% Americans in the crowd, there were some...
...plan to raise Manchuria's heavy industrial production. Output now is about 10% of the Japanese mark in 1944. The Communists hope to reach 40% by 1950's end. Proclaimed Kao Kang: "To fulfill this historical task, it is necessary to study seriously ... the Soviet technique in economic construction and methods of government...
...months pensioners had increased from 198,000 to 245,000. The cost of paying them had jumped to more than $17 million a month and had all but broken the bank at Sacramento. Last week California newspapers and businessmen were engaged in an all-out battle to get the plan modified at a special election in November. They had begun in typical California style by hiring one Joe Robinson-the same professional signature collector who had raised the funds and gotten the signatures to put Proposition 4 over in the first place...
...British dollar crisis seriously affected Western Europe's hesitant start toward economic integration. In Paris the OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) sat down to divide up the Marshall Plan dollars for 1949-50. The estimates of irreducible need from each country totaled about $5 billion. Since the U.S. Congress was expected to provide only about $3.7 billion, a working party was set to paring down the estimates. When, with blood almost visibly dripping from the knife, the working party reported, there were cries of pain from Britain. Direly worried about the immediate future,Britain had upped her original...
CHESF began as a gleam in the eye of Pernambuco's Senator Apolonio Sales, Minister of Agriculture under the Vargas dictatorship. Sales saw Paulo Afonso as part of a larger, TVA-style plan for development of the whole valley, with irrigation, flood-control and sanitation schemes. He was swept out of office in the avalanche that toppled Vargas, but not before both CHESF and the Sao Francisco Valley Authority (for which plans are still incomplete) had been...