Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the proposed plan, commuters, by paying one half of the regular dormitory dues, may spend the night in the derms and may attend meals and informal dances. Main objective of the plan is to provide affiliation with dormitories for all senior and freshman commuters. Commuting freshmen indicated dorm preference at the time of registration...
...Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
...Marshall Plan should be kept working, however, for its political and humanitarian results are looking better and better. Standards of living have climbed in every country receiving U. S. aid. Unemployment has been falling. And ECA officials, who take a nice practical look at such things, balance high living standards and low unemployment against communism. There is very good evidence to back up the head of ECA's controller's office in Paris when he said "Marshall Plan-aid has reduced Communist pressure in every European country...
...Hoffman and the Congress and the American people have a tough decision. The U. S. may have to continue paying out $4,000,000,000 a year for a plan which is failing in its original purpose. But the plan has also produced some results that should be very valuable for Europe's and our own economic and political security. The American people are going to have to be willing to continue shelling out if they want to preserve this security...
...chowder and apple pie were delicious: Herman would have enjoyed himself, the more so since the meeting followed one of his cardinal rules: "I plan to keep the alumni sullen, but not rebellious...