Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enormous sums have been appropriated for the task, and anyone working with private information outfits can only be appalled at the extravagance of the operation. The State Department supports Information Centers throughout Germany and Austria, most of which have large libraries of books on American subjects. Periodically they send out truck loads of American books for distribution to smaller towns. Picture displays on the U.S., American teachers, artists, musicians, and lecturers tour the Centers. Last summer the Walden String Quartet, the Yale Glee Club, and Town Meeting of the Air were some of the performers...
...Division of Education and Cultural Relations in Germany, recently said, "The United States is known in Europe, at least, as the land of CARE packages and material aid, efficiency, unlimited wealth, and may I add, irrepressible and unhibited tourists. I hope to see the day when we shall send to Europe our finest artists, scholars, symphony orchestras, university shows, choirs, etc. The Yale Glee Club and the Walden String Quartet were worth a hundred public discussions on the democratic ideal and culture...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will read Dickens' "Christmas Carol" at tonight's "Christmas Send-Off Party" at the Union. Jones' reading, at 7 p.m. in the Upper Common Room, will be preceded by a plano recital by Paul Knudson...
...clause of the new regulations, however, limits the power of these stations to around a tenth of what they had been using. WHRB and about seventy other stations send their programs through steam pipes and coaxial cables, a process which takes a lot of power. If the cut is enforced, they will be reduced to broadcasting soft squeaks...
...conditions in dependent territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...