Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relief of his literary admirers, Archibald MacLeish dropped his wartime role of political soothsayer and returned, in some sections of Act five, to the personal lyrics he had once sung so well. From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities. Her Song of the Cold contained some good war poetry. (It was a year in which America became Sitwell conscious, and the touring Sitwells discovered America. Osbert Sitwell sketched an acid portrait of his delightfully eccentric father in Laughter in the Next Room; Sacheverell, youngest of the literary family...
...nature of food and other necessities of life. These shipments, though, Fairbank stressed, should not go directly from our government to either the National or Communist government but should be distributed through such agencies as United Service to China, Red Cross, missions, and the UN International Relief Organization...
...producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...
...Puerto Rico's population (now 2,200,000) has more than doubled. At present rates, it will rise another 36% by 1965. The island's sugar-based economy gives it an increasingly unfavorable trade balance with the U.S. (last year's: $140 million). U.S. expenditures for relief and public works have made Puerto Rico a vast and continuing WPA project...
...expenditures for social and defense programs; [and] higher wages." Farm prospects would be dimmed by "a further decline in agricultural prices," and corporations would face increased taxes. But an increase in crops might prevent any real drop in farm incomes, said Moulton, and lower farm prices would "afford real relief for those on relatively fixed salaries and incomes...