Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were wrong, even though the first year of Marshall aid produced a fine and eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in 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...
These troubles are, simply, that (1) Europe cannot produce as well and as efficiently as the U. S.; (2) As long as this technical backwardness continues, free trade between the continents is probably impossible. This is a reasonably short-run proposition; some day technological progress may put Europe very much back on its feet. But even ECA admits this day will...
...Valpey put red jersies back on his team yesterday and began preparations for Columbia. It was as simple as that--except for the fact that four key men were on the sidelines, Stanford might have been merely a name...
...article contained the statement, "The sharp weapons of Christ are being blunted, and the strong, virile doctrines of the Church are being put aside in a conspiracy of silence." Maluf went...
...true dogma, has built St. Benedict's Center up from a recreation hall to a school. His scholars join in "bull sessions" like those of the early days and answer students' questions with certainty. Father Feeney said they answer questions the average college student would not be willing to put to a priest...