Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inaugural address in January President Truman outlined a four point legislative program for passage by the 81st Congress. The last point called for technical and financial aid to underdeveloped countries. This was to be separate from any economic or military help to Marshall Plan--or later, Atlantic Pact--nations...
...keeping with the strictly economic nature of aid under Point Four, the proposed bill is entitled "International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949," it calls for $35,000,000 the first year, to be used through the U.N. and in direct loans of money and assistance to poor countries throughout the world. Most of the funds would probably be distributed through the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council...
According to Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb, who presented the bill to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, first consideration would be for improvement in health standards, then for teaching better methods in agriculture and industry. Webb argued that Point Four would strengthen the U.N., expand markets for American business, and generally raise living standards throughout the world...
...forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
Sarnoff still had to find the exact spot on a human neck where the current would hit the "motor point" of the phrenic nerve. For this, his Swiss-born wife Charlotte (who is also his laboratory assistant) served as a human guinea pig. When they found the spot, after hours of probing her neck with the electrode, her diaphragm contracted forcefully and she took a gusset-popping deep breath. Dr. Sarnoff had proved his device. Last year, he and his team of coworkers* called in a manufacturer to make technical improvements in the machine and turn out a pilot model...