Word: aid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free Libya's legacy from its past includes rich Roman ruins, live German land mines, and a fierce resentment among Libya's predominantly Arab 1,130,000 population against all things foreign. All things, that is, except foreign money, particularly U.S. dollars. Libya gets more foreign aid per capita than any other nation in the world...
...foreign affairs. Since 1953, he has been a member of the National Security Council planning board, and served as assistant director of the Office of Defense Mobilization from 1951 to 1953. Since the war, he has been on the staffs of a number of House committees on foreign aid and affairs...
...Band-Aid, please . . . [embarrassed little laugh] Cut my finger...
...world's steel production. But the war, in cruelly efficient terms, had proved a blessing in disguise for many foreign steel industries. Their bombed-out plants were built anew with equipment more up to date than most U.S. steel plants', often with the help of U.S. aid...
...Wages. Many nations that once produced no steel or very little have begun developing their own industries, often with U.S. aid. India, for example, is modernizing and expanding its steel plants under the leadership of Steel Baron Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, who has expanded his huge plant to a capacity of more than 1,500,000 tons of salable steel annually. Canada, once a prime market for U.S. steel, has steadily supplied more of its own needs from its growing steel industry...