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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its prestige secure, the Marshall Plan forged ahead. In France and most other OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful...
From the ruins of the old U.S. Embassy a rain of bricks and stones drove the first police back in retreat and pelted every Soviet-licensed car in sight. Then reinforcements sped up and the crowd fell back; pistol shots cut the air and the first man fell, pitching forward on his face. In the minutes that followed, the crowd rolled back & forth repeatedly through the columns of the Tor, as its courage alternately flared and faltered. As a whole it was not a bold crowd: one bunch that halted a Soviet car beat a hasty retreat when the officer...
Until he got into the political big time, De Bernonville was unknown in Canada. That was the way he wanted it. Two years ago, using a forged passport and the name of Jacques Benoit, he had sneaked into the Dominion from the U.S. At first he kept out of sight by working in the Quebec woods. Then he settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with...
...sight was cheering medical news to every polio fighter. Said one doctor: "Once we can see a thing, we can study it; and when we know how it operates, we are usually able to stop the operation...
...OFFERTORY: "In theory, the whole congregation surging up into the sanctuary and presenting you, the priest, with the bread and wine, their contribution to the mysteries. Actually, in their name, a small boy emerges from the background, probably with hiccoughs; at first sight you are tempted to regard him as an unwelcome distraction, then you remember that he stands there in the name of the congregation...