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...envoys to ten South American countries met in Rio de Janeiro last week to thresh out regional problems and talk policy. Sparkplug of the meeting was brisk, affable Edward G. Miller, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Also present, as observer and counselor: the State Department's planner in chief, scholarly George F. Kennan...
Since Confederation, the Dominion government has spent only $79 million on peacetime highway construction, mostly on a dollar-for-dollar basis with the provinces as make-work in hard times. This fall's conference will thresh out how to charge off the estimated $400 million needed to put a cross-Canada route into shape. It will also try to agree on a route...
...offered to sit down with the Russians and thresh out the differences on the occupation of Berlin-but not unless the Russians first lifted their blockade...
...Brussels, the finance ministers of the five met to thresh out the economic aspects of their alliance...
...Saturday the 30-add delegated will thresh out such problems as the extent of administrative control over student newspapers and year-books and student reluctance to go to the polls in college elections...