Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear that some agency was needed to carry out its functions. By the time the green turns into yellow, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania should be able to produce most of their own food. But Greece, Italy, Austria and many another country in Europe and Asia will need relief for years to come...
With some $350,000 a year, the Council finances commissions and publications on such matters as evangelism, race relations, radio, labor relations, "international justice & good will," etc. The Council itself spends no money on relief or missions, but it underwrites the budgets of several interdenominational religious agencies which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
...that the 18½?-an-hour steel increase is to be the pattern for U.S. industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages and low ceilings or 2) a forecast of earnings indicates that profits will fall below the 1936-39 period...
Said Bowles cheerfully: "[The new policy] means quicker settlement of wage problems. It means prompt price relief where hardship exists. . . . It means that the way is cleared for all-out production." What was more to the point, he finally admitted what businessmen have been wearily saying: OPA's cost absorption policy has reached its limits in many an industry, including household furniture, low-cost clothing and household appliances...
M.O.T.'s attitude is neither anti-British nor anti-Russian, but ardently pro-Greek. By implication, the film pleads for continuing UNRRA relief, increased U.S. sympathy and support, a free expression of popular opinion in the coming Greek general elections. Most eloquent shot: two small, hungry Greeks ratting around the trash of a city dump, pushing aside worthless, repudiated drachma notes in their search for something...