Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman gave his blessing to the reorganization plan; he would be glad to save the people's money and his own time. But the big test on establishing efficiency and economy lay not with the President but with Congress. Early in January, the Hoover Commission would make its full report. Most of the proposed changes would require congressional approval. Thousands of jobs would be wiped out. It remained to be seen how far politicians would go to save money...
Food, machinery and raw materials-Marshall Plan aid from the U.S.-is unloading on the docks of western Europe. What difference does it make? One close-up answer can be found in the town of Nijverdal (pop. 9,000), set in the peatbog country of eastern Holland. To Nijverdal, the Marshall Plan means cotton. When TIME Correspondent Frank White went to have a look, he found that word of his coming had got to Nijverdal ahead of him. Cabled White last week...
...northern Greece was like. Now he had better things to do. He had inherited Greece's largest department store and had settled down in a luxurious apartment with his attractive wife and a young daughter. So, when he was called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical board. The ex-employee was promptly rejected as unfit...
...German law in formulating their own legal code, Berman continued. Therefore Soviet law curiously contains bourgeois terms such as contract and inheritance, even though its nature is decidedly socialistic. It does not bother with individual rights but has been set up as a means to administer the socialistic plan...
...point is: that we were junking idealism. While we do plan to show the practical workings of our economy, we will continue to counteract the milk-socialist propaganda of the local pseudo-intellectuals by showing that the American way, as we see it, will give "the greatest good for the greatest number...