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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of Washington, through apathy, ignorance and sympathy, found itself stuck with a welfare system that was even gaudier than California's Proposition 4. One out of every twelve persons in the state would get financial assistance for two years and the other eleven would pay almost as much to keep them as the Government spent building Grand Coulee Dam. Unless it instituted a sizable new tax program, the state was almost certain to go into...
Like a sales manager giving a quiet pep talk, he urged British industry to go out and grab a larger slice of the dollar market. He proposed two "practical, realizable goals"- a fivefold increase in the number of British firms engaged in exporting to the U.S.; and a threefold increase of British exports to the dollar market (from $600 million to $1.8 billion...
...AMERICANS: "Much of the largest cause of the present situation is to be found in the dislocation produced by two wars . . . Britain (apart from Germany) was the only country that fought right through both wars . . ." FOR BRITONS: "No other country is going to recognize any obligation to provide the British people with a living, no matter what their services ... in the common cause...
...bright native costumes last week as some 200 Dutch and Indonesian delegates assembled for a round-table conference in The Netherlands' staid capital. With the U.N.'s Commission for Indonesia looking on, the delegates in The Hague's ancient Hall of Knights expected to spend two months at solving the thorny Indonesian problem which has plagued the Dutch and the Western world since...
...Rumania. Borba, the official voice of Belgrade, charged that Rumania was inciting Communists in Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria to join in carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship, covered by Soviet planes, steamed up & down the Danube in Yugoslav waters, defying orders to halt, and acting, said Belgrade, in a "deliberately provocative manner...