Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week she was busier than ever. She opened the United Nations' Relief Bazaar and the Christmas Seal campaign in Washington, visited the Good Will Industries workshop (see cut), popped in & out of capital lunches and teas...
...Congress was still bogged deep in debate over the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. Although the nation had long since pledged $1,350,000,000 (1% of its 1943 national income) to UNRRA, the final $550,000,000 was still unappropriated. Why? Because the House had tacked on an amendment barring use of the funds in countries which do not give free access to U.S. news correspondents (i.e., Russia and her satellites), and UNRRA's U.S. representatives said this provision was unworkable...
...prisoners of war returning from Russia were thin, unkempt, hungry, tired. Relief workers greeted them with what poor Italy could afford: a cup of minestrone, two small loaves of bread, an apple...
...Army had decided that the cargoes were surplus. In a matter of hours the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, which handles foreign surpluses, had sold the cargoes of wheat, construction materials and medical supplies to the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration for $3 million (80ff on the dollar...
...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...