Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bizonia. As a Navy captain, he had a peculiar wartime job: running strikebound plants (York Safe and Lock, some 60 oil refineries) seized by the Navy. Now he was trying to tap Bizonia's vitally needed industry. "Western Europe," he said, "is like a machine that has run way down. Part needs oiling, part replacing, part overhauling. Before this machine can achieve top efficiency again, every single piece must be functioning smoothly. Germany is the carburetor of this machine." He had staunchly backed ECA's drive to halt the dismantling of Ruhr factories...
...globe seem much bigger to the mind and much smaller to the body ... In the 19th Century, Jules Verne wrote Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily, not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better...
...attacks and sabotage, plucked 270 million people from the brink of chaos and despair. By all this it had added immeasurably to the chances of the U.S. and the world for enduring peace and prosperity. In the words of its chief, ECAdministrator Paul Gray Hoffman, it was on the way to proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought." Time to Breathe. ECA's most spectacular birthday present was the North Atlantic pact; it marked the flowering of economic cooperation into a joint plan of Western defense against Communist aggression. As Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
...there was a boat crossing the Atlantic with black aboard, we'd follow its progress across the Atlantic, and wait for it to dock. If we heard it was at Liverpool, some of us went out to meet the trucks on the way from the docks. We begged the drivers not to stop even for a meal on the road, but to rush the black to the factory. It was terrible, desperate...
Prosperity & Unity. The ECAdministrator laid down the problem of Marshall planning v. socialist planning this way...