Word: reds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Years of hurricane experience had taught the U.S. how to protect itself. The U.S. Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Service uses networks of sensitive seismographs and patrols of hurricane-hunting planes. Strict city building codes and the American Red Cross "hurricane shelter" program have also reduced the toll. Twenty years ago, U.S. hurricanes cost an average of 161 lives for every $10 million property damage...
...twelve persons in the state would get financial assistance for two years and the other eleven would pay almost as much to keep them as the Government spent building Grand Coulee Dam. Unless it instituted a sizable new tax program, the state was almost certain to go into the red...
...Practical Approach. Last week an advance guard of experts was already at work in Washington, examining a preliminary statement of Britain's situation furnished by London. Sir Stafford Cripps, who will be the British delegation chairman, secluded himself in his Gloucestershire home, jotted down neat notes (appropriately in red ink) from a pile of Treasury briefs that mounted during the week from 20 to 42. He was reported, among other things, to be weighing the chances and consequences of a further slash in U.S. imports to slow the alarmingly rapid drain of his country's dollar reserves...
...hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still reported stubbornly opposed to devaluation of the pound, but there was growing feeling...
...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...