Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...spending in the first quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
From his "rest home" in Moscow came word that French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, partly paralyzed from a stroke two months ago, was able to walk a few steps without help. From Rome it was announced that Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, recovering from a brain operation, had boarded a train for Moscow and some of the same salubrious Soviet atmosphere...
...onetime school superintendent himself (in Beaverton, Mich.), Dean MacConnell thought he knew how to help his callers out. His scheme: a special School Plant Planning Department at Stanford which would not only aid small communities but would also give Stanford graduate students some first-hand experience in practical administration...
...department, plus a headquarters "laboratory" of construction and equipment specimens, e.g.: 18 different types of ceiling, five types of flooring, and just about every shape and size of chair, table and desk a school might need. Meanwhile, MacConnell and his graduate students were busy answering calls for help...
Last week calls for help had come in from a town in Utah and another in Montana. MacConnell was looking forward to sending his first teams outside the state. "We're sure other universities will take up our idea if we don't move fast," says he. "We want to get there fustest with the mostest...