Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...them, on Harry Truman's side, were Secretaries Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, General of the Army Omar Bradley; with Attlee were Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Field Marshal Slim, Air Force Marshal Tedder. For an hour and 35 minutes, vowing they would come to a "mutual understanding," they laid the groundwork for discussions to come. Intermittently, behind closed doors, they talked for five consecutive days, while the noise of the katydids-planned "leaks" and planted rumors-rose around them...
...American take of the world's raw materials (about 50% of the total) might have to be cut. Last week at their Washington meetings Truman and Attlee laid the groundwork for an end to catch-as-catch-can buying (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Best guess was that a group similar to the Combined Raw Materials Board of World War II would be set up to make sure that the raw materials of the West went where they were most needed...
When the Shah of Iran visited the U.S. last year, he got a royal welcome that laid the groundwork for a $25 million Export-Import Bank loan. Day by day, through an Iran relay station, the Voice of America beamed an account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after...
...Lloyd Jordan has an intense desire to win games. He hates to lose, and he takes no stock in moral victories. Whether or not he is still coaching here in three or four or five years, the groundwork will be there
Prohibition & Suffrage. New York first sent him to the U.S. Senate in 1914. He backed the principle of selective service before the U.S. entered World War I. In 1920, almost singlehanded, he attempted to secure universal military training. He failed, but his national defense act helped lay the groundwork for the prosecution of World War II. He was defeated for the Senate in 1926. The U.S. was bored with talk of war, and he had also stubbornly opposed both prohibition and woman suffrage...