Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond the usual peacetime expenditures for domestic disaster and sick relief, it has a large budget for foreign relief. Last year the Red Cross spent $2.5 million in Austria alone. This year it has already scheduled distribution of more than $5 million worth of supplies to Rumania and Hungary...
...Government was pressing hard in Washington for release of the $500 million Export-Import Bank loan, which has long been earmarked for China. In Nanking T. V. Soong tried to persuade UNRRA's fast-talking Deputy Director General R. G. A. Jackson to drop UNRRA's present relief program and instead to procure 1,000,000 bales of cotton and 200,000 tons of cereals for sale on China's open market at fixed prices...
With the food relief drive only three days off, it's about time we who are going to shell out know that our contributions are not for just "another emergency," or another group of starving people, but for students like ourselves who, possibly even more than we, will be the policy makers, the planners, and the leaders of a world in which we must spend our days. We can think about the crust of bread symbolizing 900 calories a day, but let's think far more intently on whether we are to keep alive this vital force-about the only...
Banjos and folk ballads are bread, butter and life to Pete Seeger, erstwhile member of the Class of 1940 who will return to Cambridge in a free, informal recital for the Food Relief Committee this afternoon in Emerson D at 5 o'clock...
Richard D. Campbell, '48, chairman of the Council Food Relief Committee, and Michael B. Rothenberg '49, campaign manager of the drive, will conduct a question and answer session with Miss von Lieben, who will also answer all queries phoned in to the Network by listeners while the program...