Word: repays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When war began, Osubka-Morawski was a small-fry organizer in the left wing of Poland's Socialist Party. In the wartime underground he teamed with the Communists, went to Moscow, and returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret...
Credit Plan. Westinghouse Electric Corp., which thought appliance sales might be nipped by the Government's installment credit curb, announced a new plan to make credit easier: Westinghouse will guarantee the buyer's bank loan. If he defaults, Westinghouse will buy back the equipment, and repay the balance of the loan...
...their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
...this is not the whole answer. The Marshall Plan is also political in purpose. As a counter to Communism in Western Europe it has already been worth more than it will ever cost us. It will continue to repay us many times over if it postpones Europe's disintegration and totalitarian engulfment...
Herewith is a reprint of a TIME story, written by one of our editors and published in our issue of March 5, 1945. I believe it will repay a second reading as the world enters the new year...