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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greece and Turkey, and for Persia, Korea, China and the Philippines. Next day, both houses approved the final appropriation of $4,852,380,000 for the second year of the European Recovery Program, $45 million for economic assistance to Greece and Turkey and $912,500,000 for U.S. occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World...
...Senate finally began doing something about the Government's long-under paid hired hands. Convinced at last that the U.S. could not get first-class service for second-class salaries, it voted some $476 million a year in pay boosts for the 1,600,000 members of the armed forces and 1,400,000 Government employees. With only perfunctory appeals to economy, the Senate approved...
While Congress debated the military assistance program, the final outlines of MAP had gradually taken shape in half a dozen-looseleaf notebooks in a second-floor office of the State Department. There, listed item by item, with the quantity and price of each, were precise allocations of military arms to each MAP country. Last week MAP planners combed through the notebooks and cut out $160 million worth of low-priority items to fit the $1 billion program authorized by Congress for the Atlantic Treaty nations...
...Lovable Character." The next day the tabloids bloomed with cheesecake and photographs, re-enacting the whole affair for posterity. El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair. It was, the management explained, his second offense -he had once insisted on keeping his hat on and threatened to push his cigarette in a customer's face...
...vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier and Foreign Minister went to smooth-talking Chou Enlai, the party's ace public-relations man with foreigners...