Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thin, dark-eyed Isaac Allal was the child of a poor tailor in the squalid Tunisian village of La Marsa; he grew up with the pale face and the weak lungs of a ghetto child. Then one day last month a glorious vista opened for him. Relief officials told the Allals that Isaac could go to a convalescent camp in Norway, and from there to Israel...
...Pakistan alone there are three universities with more than a hundred colleges affiliated to them. Tension exists between the native and huge refugee student populations. WSSF is attempting to ease the present crisis by providing a student program and adopting concrete relief projects...
After aid to refugee students comes relief for non-chartered universities. Many student clinics were damaged during communal rioting; WSSF is attempting to rebuild and restock them through funds raised in such drives as the present Council campaign...
...down there and work the thing out. He went down and he incorporated . . . [Huey Long] wanted to get himself about 25 to 30 thousand dollars per year to donate toward some fund . . . There was supposed to be a tax to the state and that tax was going to some relief of some kind . . . That was his proposal, but it never happened because he died." How did Costello happen to be singled out for so profitable a deal? "Maybe I was the lucky one," he dryly told the jury...
...worker's union threatened to strike unless the supervisor apologized and was fired. After five days' negotiations, the Briton apologized, was transferred to another post. "A most damnable time for something like this to happen," said a British labor adviser, "most damnable." Jittery Britons sighed with relief when the damnable incident passed without major trouble...