Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...
...throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before war's end. Living costs trebled, the average peasant was eating only one meal a day. Tight, teeming Haiti was ready for a change...
...London heard that the talks were going well. But no statesman had quite faced the fact that atomic control presupposes that international inspection will prove both technically and politically possible. The Russian character and the semi-conspiratorial background of the Soviet regime were against easy acceptance of any inspection scheme. There was a good chance that a plan of agreement would be drafted in Moscow, but the odds on real atomic control in 1946 stayed remote...
...keeping with the pattern of economic agreements already woven around Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland. If true in detail, it perhaps explained why the Russians could afford to permit the rise of vigorous political opposition throughout the Soviet sphere (TIME, Nov. 12). But, in itself, no economic scheme could guarantee that the opposition would stay within Russian bounds. The opposition parties had risen under the knouts of fear and want; they might continue to thrive, especially with encouragement...
...chosen-instrument" policy of Tory Lord Swinton, then Civil Aviation Minister. He had recommended that three privately owned, State-backed companies operate 1) North American, British Commonwealth and Far Eastern services, 2) domestic and European routes, 3) routes to and from South America. Now, in junking this scheme, Swinton's successor, Lord Winster, apparently acted against his own better judgment, bowed to the party's Civil Aviation Committee. Last week, in the House of Lords, outraged Lord Swinton said that the new scheme was "most disappointing and damning" to the future of British civil aviation, charged that...