Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget. He was urging more efficient tax collecting, more efficient production techniques. His staff had calculated that a rationalization of methods could increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France's economy-fewer vineyards and more wheatfields, heavy machinery instead of perfumes and fancy handbags...
...special expense accounts and special credentials from President Peròn, the attaches (who were sent to 50 countries) were usually the fanciest spenders and most zealous propaganda-pushers at any Argentine embassy. It was a labor attache who thought up the stunt of having Eva Peròn send clothing to needy Washington schoolchildren. Scores of labor leaders were sent on paid-up junkets to see the New Argentina. But the drive to build up a Peronista hemispheric labor federation came to nothing...
Sure Cure. Since the military junta of General Manuel Odria took over Peru last fall, the government has been worried about the public effects of coca-chewing. In desperation, it finally renewed an old plea to the U.N. Economic and Social Council to send a commission to work on the problem. Callao's international operators speeded up their shipments to clear out big inventories. But domestic dealers were unworried. Said one: "If you're poor, you're hungry. Pichicato fixes that. If you're rich, you want an aphrodisiac. Pichicato fixes that...
...first report of such letters came from Kentucky three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association...
...shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection of treasures into one of the finest anywhere...