Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower lost no time in making public a dramatic and highly appropriate move. He offered last week to send $15 million worth of food into hunger-ridden East Germany. "Because of its position as an occupying power in GerMany, my Government," said Eisenhower, "has a legitimate interest in the welfare of the people of Germany." Both the U.S.S.R. and the East German Communist government shrilly rejected the Eisenhower offer, a rejection certain to increase the rebellious mood of East Germans...
KENTUCKY Mint-Flavored Mickey Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby exhibited truly remarkable restraint last week in the face of provocation calculated to send him and his state's entire electorate into at least the milder manifestations of apoplexy: the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce not only claimed that the mint julep was originated in Mississippi, but that Kentuckians never heard of it until both the recipe and the mint had been transplanted there by a bourbon-drinking boatman. But though Kentucky's governor spoke softly, he did not fail to slip Mississippi a mickey...
...Sickbed requires the diplomatic finesse and toughness of a Talleyrand-and often the elusiveness. Sometimes the mere presence of a clergyman is enough to send the patient into a tailspin of fear that his end has come. Members of the family who ask the minister to pretend that he just happened to drop in are no help. Inexperienced ministers are likeliest to agree to this deception: "They come breezing in as though by chance, express astonishment at finding someone of the household sick, and, of course, under the circumstances cannot bear any burden of the seriousness of the situation." Other...
AIRLINES may soon be carrying up to 85% of all first-class mail, if Post Office experiments later this summer pan out. It is still cheaper to send mail by rail than by air (36? v. 52¾? an air ton-mile), but with a big volume to haul on late night flights the airlines may be able to cut their rates enough to underbid the railroads, which are asking a 45% increase for carrying mail...
...than the postwar peak, businessmen tend to regard the prewar level as an attainable goal. They forget Russia itself deliberately wiped out two-thirds of the prewar trade. Most of it came from the once-independent nations, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary. Rumania, and East Germany. As Soviet satellites, they now send goods which once flowed to the West, to Moscow and Peking at Soviet-set prices. The West's normal trade with mid-Europe has dropped from the prewar level of 8% of its total trade to the present 3%. The Soviet-bloc nations, which once did 85% of their...