Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fundamentally, we face a political-a human-challenge of the very highest order. In spite of our great efforts and vast expenditures, we have been hugely unsuccessful in the battle for men's minds. We have spent more than $1,800 million in Italy since the war and during the same period the membership of the Communist Party there went from 60,000 to 2,500,000. We run the risk of a political campaign in which one candidate spends most of the money while the other candidate receives all the votes...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation network expanded and made efficient. With realistic vision, he advocated settling 700,000 D.P.s in Brazil's vast backlands. Often he lost patience because Brazilians did not buy his ideas as quickly as he would have liked. And often his rear was harassed by confusion (or worse) in the State Department...
Mutual Aid. ERP, as one Ottawa official admitted last week, might just as well be called a "Canadian Recovery Program." ERP's European beneficiaries will use ERP dollars to pay for the vast food stocks and limited manufactured goods they buy from Canada. (Prairie farmers will supply half the wheat for ERP shipments to Europe.) Last year the Dominion had a deficit of $743 million in its trading accounts in U.S. currency. This year, as a result of the import restrictions, it will be less. ERP, with at least $500 million earmarked for Canada, will wipe...
...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...