Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the State Department have called the Seminar "the best method yet devised of presenting America to Europeans." But since its start, the school has avoided any official connection with the Government lest Europeans consider it a propaganda tool. Even so, many of the students, particularly in 1947, came to the Seminar on the lookout for indoctrination in the "American way." Often they were surprised to discover that the Americans on the faculty and staff were willing to examine criticism of the United States. The democratic atmosphere, at the Casile made propaganda unnecessary. Most of the Europeans were impressed...
...Yet there was no question that the shakeout of inflated prices was spreading and that consumers had tightened up their spending. In addition to cuts in the price of whisky and Ford cars (see below), there were reductions in many basic products, such as lead, zinc, copper, tallow. In its new midseason catalogue, Sears, Roebuck listed many prices anywhere from 10% to 50% cheaper than in its January book...
...Over. Last week everyone this side of the Iron Curtain was beckoning the tourists and reaching for the $500 million in Yankee dollars that the visitors would leave behind them. Everywhere, hotels were getting a sprucing-up, and red tape an unraveling (many countries- had abolished visas). If not yet back to prewar standards and costs, foreign travel was getting simple enough to be good fun again...
...doing most of the spending in the U.S., have also become important owners of U.S. business. In many big corporations (U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T., etc.) women stockholders outnumber men. And sooner or later, most women have to take on the job of managing their husbands' estates. Yet few women are trained in money management, or know anything about interpreting balance sheets...
...perfect little Anglophiles, wholly ashamed of their own country. Of course, they may have spoken in defense of it merely because they were assigned to that side of the discussion, but if they were insincere, they managed to hide it. Possibly the day will yet come when Harvard men of their view will find their way into the state department. Today the department has no lack of Harvard men. What it needs is patriots...