Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Flipper-Flapping. Harry Truman spoke more soberly. He asked the assembled Democrats to remember the party platform and to help him carry it through. Then he recalled that Princeton University was engaged in publishing the complete works of Thomas Jefferson; he hoped that someone would also publish all the writings of Jackson, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt...
Item: The ministers agreed to chip in ?7,500,000 to help wayward sister Burma, which had left the Commonwealth, get back on her feet...
Before Christmas Urriolagoitia offered to give tin producers who increased their exports a more favorable exchange rate for their dollar earnings. Such a measure was of small help: Malaya and Indonesia, with the advantage of currency devaluation, were selling high-grade tin at a price Bolivia could not continue to meet. Last week the President appointed an Emergency Economic Committee to report on possible fiscal expedients...
...Washington, Bolivian representatives urged the U.S. to stockpile Bolivian tin at a price around 90? a lb. Reluctant to pay a bonus of 12½? a lb. above the world price, U.S. officials stuck to the view that the Bolivians would have to continue to help themselves. With little else to sell in the world but high-cost tin, and with their unemployment rolls growing daily, Bolivians could look forward to a long siege...
...crowd turned in horror. The man nervously protested his innocence. A church attendant searched him, found a piece of the cross-shaped mounting in his pocket. An angry knot closed in around him. He screamed for help as a dozen women ripped off their shoes and began beating him and clawing at his clothes. By the time the police had pushed through the mob, he was ragged and bleeding...