Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he grew more wheat or collected more eggs than the public would buy at his price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even as late as June 1948, CCC had laid out a mere $294 million. But in the 16 months since, CCC purchases-to keep the farmer's income up-had increased fantastically. Last week CCC President Ralph S. Trigg announced that CCC had tied up more than $3 billion...
...aqueducts crept out like thirsty tubular feelers to the watersheds of Long Island and the Catskills. It built 18 big dams, stored water in 30 lakes and reservoirs, laid 5,200 miles of mains and pipes to feed the city's hidden lacework of metal capillaries. But World War II, which halted work on a new aqueduct, boosted the city's ever-rising population alarmingly. Last summer's grass-crisping drought did the rest...
Since the end of the war, U. S. agencies in Western Europe have put on a concentrated campaign to convince Europeans that America is a very friendly and generous country. Most of this convincing has emanated from the various information missions of the Economic Cooperation Administration which pays out Marshall Plan Funds. ECA in France publishes a slick-paper monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily...
...well-organized and financed Communist parties in almost every one of the Western countries. These parties, especially strong in France and Italy, are tightly organized on a ward-boss level; their newspapers have huge circulations. And so far, as the ECA poll shows, they have been winning the propaganda war with very little trouble...
...reviewing the "cold war" between the democratic countries and Russia, Kaltenborn saw victory for the democracies on two of three fronts. Communism is an ever-diminishing danger rather than a menace in the U.S. while Europe has shown a definite reaction against Communism in recent months, he said. The situation is Asia is still "undecided," he added...