Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observation Offer. The spy-scared Russians refused to permit UNRRA observers to oversee the distribution of relief, but were willing to cut their original $700,000,000 request to $320,000,000. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton and Britain's Philip Noel-Baker agreed to offer Russia $240 million and still insisted that Russia admit observers. The conference ended with the still-unsettled Russian question in the lap of the Central Committee...
From the air, by night or day or through the thickest cloud, it lays open the terrain below like a relief map, showing coastlines, ships, harbors, jetties, mountains, lakes, rivers, bridges, cities. At close range, with the narrowest radar beam, it is possible to see a city's river fronts, avenues, even buildings...
...this glare, New Yorkers could now seek relief from their normal confusion among Republicans, Democrats, American Laborites, Liberals, Fusionists, Socialists, Socialist-Laborites and Communists - if they were so minded...
Showdown. At week's end, embattled Tom Braniff saw relief in sight. The Mexican Minister of Communications ordered C.M.A. to open all its airport facilities. He ruled that the fields should be considered public property, exclusive to no one. Fighting Tom Braniff had won an important point-at least for the moment...
...bound Anthropologist Eslanda and her eight-year-old son, Pauli, in their double first-class stateroom. But Eslanda noticed reluctance to discuss "the all-important subject of Native affairs," recognized her British callers as " 'Deep South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa was full of surprises. The "natives," rigorously segregated in so-called "locations...