Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western victory in Greece was winged with hope and also with foreboding; the State Department last week received reports that the Communists were about to start guerrilla warfare across the border in Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia...
...Early Start. To get around this financial track block, most Canadians agreed that hearty, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Donald Gordon was probably the best man to have at the throttle. A Scottish immigrant boy, he got a job at 15 as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 34 he was picked as first secretary of the new Bank of Canada, became deputy to Governor Graham Towers three years later...
Burdick's pronouncement had had one instant effect. Other Oxonians, including a batch of other Rhodes scholars, dashed to their desks to compose retorts for the next week's issue of I sis. It looked as though the year was off to a splendid start, with enough to sparkle and stutter about all through Michaelmas term...
Would the plan work? O.C.I., which has signed a contract to supervise the plan, was convinced that it would. U.S. State Department officials also felt "pretty optimistic" about it. And other Middle Eastern countries have been impressed enough to start dickering with O.C.I, for similar plans to develop their lands-with soap...
O.C.I, will start eliminating this abysmal misery not with steel mills and hydroelectric plants, but with cheap soap and DDT. Among the report's specific recommendations for the first year: spray DDT in barns, homes, under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...