Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech will be under the auspices of the United Services to China. This organization was under the title of United China Relief during the war, when it was instrumental in sending food, clothes, medical supplies and other relief supplies to the war-stricken millions of Asia. Reorganized recently, it is carrying on with this work as well as a reconstruction program for war-torn areas...
...unofficial capital of Gujerati-speaking India, his extraordinary skill as an organizer showed itself for the first time during the great Gujerat floods. Everything broke down-transport, communications, all methods of distribution. The general Indian attitude used to be to regard such catastrophes as acts of God What little relief there was usually came from a British Government which took its good time to relieve distress. Patel initiated an unheard-of fund-raising drive for the relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers wading through waist-deep water, carrying boxes...
...would destroy the lives and property of several million people" living in the path of the river's projected diversion. The Reds charged that resettlement of these millions had been delayed by the Nationalists' failure to make good a promised $15 billion CN ($4.5 million U.S.) relief payment to local Communist authorities...
...needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes the street as well as the ice, and flame throwing devices only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin and bear and take a long historical view...
...Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications so easily defensible that someone is certain to crop up with the idea before the argument becomes much warmer. With the GOP in power, some sort of tax relief is in the cards; the main job new consists in fixing a wary eye on the dealer...