Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the clogging setbacks of the coal and steel strikes, and the mountainous burden of taxes, the U.S. was still an amazingly prosperous nation. The almost-forgotten recession of last spring had left only barely noticeable scars: personal savings were dropping a little and the old problem of unemployment, though lessening, seemed back for good. But even in comparison with the war years, the U.S. was doing fine...
Wearing his famed black beret and crackling with splintery opinions, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein popped into Washington last week. Though his visit was unofficial, Monty, as military chief of Europe's Western Union forces, delivered one deliberate message...
Civilization, white South African style, did everything it could to thwart Scott's mission. Though denied official standing, he managed to tell U.N. members of the black man's plight. Three times the General Assembly asked the Union of South Africa to place the onetime German colony under international control. Three times the Union refused. As of today, the Union government of Premier Daniel Malan has all but annexed South West Africa...
...sturdy Henri Last week Belgium's Parliament was Finance Minister Liebaert's cut in direct taxes (on property, shares), which would save Bel prosperous, free-enterprising tax $5,000,000 this year. Further reductions, hoped Liebaert, would save $30 million in 1950 and $40 million in 1951. Though Belgium has a deficit of $90 million this year, Liebaert, no advocate of the welfare state, thought he could still balance the budget, as well as drop taxes, by trimming social-security benefits, coal and railway subsidies...
Election day passed in relative calm. Fumbling Liberals, who had already withdrawn their presidential candidate, Dario Echandia, in protest at government indifference to violence (TIME, Nov. 14), called for a three-day general strike. Though some railroads were affected in the provinces, the main results of the strike in Bogota were a shortage of taxicabs and the nonappearance of the Liberal newspapers. Electricity, telephone and water service continued under guard...