Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer had missed the point of the Marshall Plan. In the long run, it was not designed to send food to the Europeans, but tractors and other things which would permit Europeans to work harder and produce more. That is why the Marshall Plan had galvanized the hopes of a continent that had almost forgotten how to hope...
Sweden, a country which loves cleanliness, was fed up with its cleaners. They took two weeks or more to clean clothes, and the prices were outrageous to boot. Last week the New York Times reported that some Swedes had found a solution. They send their clothes by airplane to be dry-cleaned in the U.S., get them back within a week...
...university's first annual playwrighting festival, C.U. announced, will be sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and Broadway's American National Theater & Academy. The stage group will send lecturers, the cinema organization will lend a big movie star (none picked so far) to each of the seven festival productions. To get the project rolling, the Motion Picture Academy assigned one of Hollywood's best known front-office hands, Anita ("The Face") Colby, to work with C.U.'s Father Gilbert Vincent Hartke (TiME, March...
...dividing line, between Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost him $50 to move to the Punjab-and the meager amount he collects in fares barely pays for food on the black market. Besides, he was still paying...
...local staff's prejudices against women editors; in spite of her job* the staff liked her. Said Rewriteman Bill Kennedy, after Aggie Underwood took over the city desk as its boss last week: "Aggie's not a woman. She's a newspaperman. No one would dare send her flowers on this occasion. She'd throw 'em at whoever...