Word: merger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amalgamation would, first of all, remove the obstacle of competition for advertising, they stated, and prevent needless duplication of sections such as Faculty, History, Activities, and Sports. With additional funds obtained from the merger, they added, these sections could be expanded...
Meanwhile committee chairmen, worried by the press of work to be done, wrestled inconclusively with a welter of major & minor legislation, from service merger and rent control to a list of 25 proposed new holidays (among them: Grandmother's Day, Freedom Day, Shut-ins Day, American Indian Day). A new addition to Congress' agenda: the President's request to extend for a year export controls over 500 scarce commodities...
Marshall insisted that Germany be made self-sustaining before reparations are skimmed off current production. Otherwise, the U.S., now pouring $300 million a year into Germany, would be subsidizing German reparations to Russia. When Molotov attacked the merger of the U.S. and British zones, Marshall hit back: "Charges and counter-charges get us nowhere. ... They do not solve our problems. They do complicate them...
...inference was clear, since the Russians in the Eastern Zone of Germany insisted on, and created, a one party system called the Social Unity Party by a forced merger of the Communists and Socialists...
Tension. Over in the Senate, the galleries were nearly empty. During the week, the Senate had managed to approve the appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually...