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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever came of these and other recommendations, one thing was obvious: Latin Americans will get no dollar handouts on the Marshall Plan scale, and they might as well accept the fact. One Latin government had already done...
Last November, with Army sponsorship, Dramamine got a full-scale trial on G.I.s bound for Germany on the U.S. Army transport General Ballon. The drug, said the doctors, was almost 98% successful both in preventing and curing seasickness. The crossing was "extremely rough." One group of G.I.s got one capsule (100 milligrams) as the ship left New York, another six hours later, and then one before each meal and at bedtime; only two complained of dizziness, none of nausea. After the drug was stopped, 30% of them got sick. As a check to see if mental suggestion might be working...
...Tideland Oil problem started with the discovery of off-shore oil deposits in California at the turn of the century. Not much was done with this discovery until the end of the twenties. Large-scale development of the area began in 1933 with the perfection of directional drilling, which allowed the necessary machinery to be on land. By 1947, California was receiving nearly $4 million in annual royalties from its off-shore oil. The importance of Tideland Oil has greatly increased with the more recent prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Over...
...Geneva meeting closed with an angry, 1,000-word manifesto which said, in part: "Governments which claim to guarantee freedom of conscience and religion are in fact denying it ... Officers and members of churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...
...opposition lineup when it took its campaign promises into committee a fortnight ago. The hearings have generated a great deal of heat in dispute over the two encyclopedia labor laws enacted in the past. But there are only two questions now completely adaptable to regulation on a national scale: The security of "national emergency" industries and the closed shop...