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...tell you what Stalin talked about. Before I left Washington I learned Russia would like a $6-billion credit from the United States. Now I understand Russia is prepared to become a good customer of the United States. Now, I believe Russia wants that credit to help reconstruct war damage and build up the living standard of the Russian people, and not for the purpose of further development of military power. Everything I've seen and everything that's been said to me strengthens that impression. Boys, I'm in favor of the United States furnishing Russia...
While Washington last week hemmed & hawed over the problem of helping the world's devastated countries to reconstruct themselves, Ottawa launched its own scheme. Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley announced a $15,000,000 credit agreement with Czechoslovakia. It was the first loan under the Dominion's new Export Credits Insurance...
Professor Perry believes that the ideas and ideals of America's founders are not obsolete in 1944. He believes with Stanford's Elton Trueblood (The Invention of America) that "the invention of America was more .important than the discovery of America." His purpose is to reconstruct the thought of the Puritans, to show its embodiment in American institutions, American government, American democracy. If writing can be "insipid with veracity," he says, "I am willing to be as insipid as necessary in order to be as veracious as possible. ... It is part of my purpose to rebuke cynics...
Even when a corporation has a claim, the battle is just starting. The corporation must then prove what its average earnings would have been if it had opened its new plant earlier, if the fire had not occurred, etc. The basic problem is to reconstruct something that never happened. This is roughly comparable, under the rules, to guessing how many angels can dance...
Digging into old files, the U.S. Weather Bureau had reconstructed maps of Northern Hemisphere weather, one for each day of the past 45 years. The task was laborious and expensive. Weather Bureau files, records of Allied Governments, all available ship logs were combed to reconstruct the temperature and pressure at 1300 GMT (3 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time) every day since 1899. The observations of peacetime German and Italian weathermen went into the maps...