Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disorder it would be wise to make in the last phase of the campaign. Some violence would help them scare timid voters from the polls, especially Italy's heavily anti-Communist women. But if Communists went too far, they might only provide an excuse for the government to use its force and postpone the elections until the ERP starts to raise Italian living standards and thus lower Communist voting strength...
...loans from the Export-Import Bank. But the kind of economic development Latin America needed, he said, was simply beyond the U.S. Government's capacity. His suggestion for latinos: invite private capital to help. To show that this need not mean economic bondage, he cited the use the U.S. made of foreign capital in its i gth Century industrialization...
...asked an outstanding Chinese Christian leader: 'Do you still feel that you can use the foreign missionary in your Christian enterprise?' He thought for a moment and then answered: 'Yes, but not all. We have to be sure that he is of the kind that will fit in with our plans. . . .' This is a significant utterance. It is 'our plans.' The Chinese are to work out the plan; it is their judgment . . . that is to determine the situation. . . . Within that situation, the foreigner is welcome...
...only $5 for every schoolkid; Mississippi, which spends the least, would get $28.50. Objective: a $50-a-year minimum outlay for the education of every U.S. child. Such controversial issues as segregation and aid to parochial schools were bypassed by a provision allowing each state "home rule" on use of federal funds...
...committee found that Kaiser-Frazer had also filtered some of Detrola's steel into the grey market. As K-F could not use some of the types it got from Detrola, K-F Vice President Clay Bedford told the committee, he made a deal with a Manhattan exporter named Charles A. Koons to sell Koons 4,000 tons of Detrola steel...