Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The statement of principles endorsed a balanced budget, decreased federal expenditures, a general tax reduction, but it also urged expansion of social-security coverage and benefits, further rural electrification, federal aid to states for "subsistence, shelter and medical care." It urged freer world trade but it insisted that U.S. industry...
This is the point at which the Fair Deal, following New Deal thought patterns, steps in with a resounding no. President Truman, lumping the financial and social problems together, proclaimed in January 1949: "In a nation as rich as ours, it is a shocking fact that tens of millions lack...
In the two years since the ECAid began, Western Europe's industrial production (excluding Germany's) had risen to about 15% above the 1938 level. The dollar gap (the amount by which Europe's imports from the dollar area exceed her exports to it) had been narrowed...
The Will to Win. Burnham is convinced that full-scale war with Russia can be avoided if the U.S. is firm enough. He scoffs at the timid notion that it is dangerous to provoke the Communists. "Communists are never 'provoked'; if they sometimes seem provoked, that is only...
The Russians offered the G.I.s 7,000 schillings ($269) to kidnap Eder, who was a night watchman in a Vienna radio-manufacturing plant and, in spy parlance, a "torpedo," i.e., an agent who informed against the Russians. For a while he had also informed the Russians about the West, but...