Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World Economic Policy Sir: Re the Dec. 13 article, "New Front in the Cold War-the U.S. Searches for a World Economic Plan": no mention is made of the only realistic way to strengthen the economy of other nations and to raise their standards of living. The answer is price. Without encouraging other peoples to raise their price levels, increase their workers' wages, utilizing their own raw materials for their own betterment rather than dumping them upon nations that already have abundance, there can be no lasting improvement in their standards of living...
...dark of the year-the winter solstice-is the feast of light. Long ago men lit bonfires to strengthen the expiring sun; the Romans celebrated the seven-day Saturnalia with outdoor illuminations and gifts of candles; the Christians came to honor Christmas with a light-decked tree. For the Jews, the feast of light is Hanukkah...
...Expanding and improving the internal transportation systems of present-day underdeveloped countries represents a great opportunity for the American aviation industry to be of service. Its capital and know-how in partnership with local investors . . . can measurably strengthen the countries we wish to be our friends. With the growth of adequate transportation will come agricultural improvement and industrial development. Better education, health services, more advantages for workers will follow...
...West insisted on going through with the Paris agreements, said Molotov, "the peace-loving states of Europe must unite their forces and considerably strengthen them . . . This demands that the countries attending the present conference carry out common measures in the field of organizing their military forces and commands" against "possible aggression." On cue, Premier Otto Grotewohl said that "should militarism be revived in West Germany," his East German Republic "will find itself forced to answer by forming national armed forces...
Because of its key position in our present day democratic capitalism, the Exchange is determined to do all within its power to strengthen and preserve that system. That is why the Exchange has fought long and hard against those provisions of our federal tax laws which have discriminated against investors and created barriers to the free flow of venture capital is our economy...