Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Luther Evans, the 44-year-old Librarian of Congress, looked up from his books long enough to rehearse a request, in a tone bolder than librarians habitually use. Though the House Appropriations Committee is slashing almost every Government agency in sight, Evans will ask for $11,346,000...
The orders which the American Graves Registration Service gave its 200-man detachment in China were deceptively simple: they were to recover and identify the bodies of U.S. servicemen who had died there during World War II. But few soldiers had ever had a tougher peacetime assignment. Many of China...
"What chance is there, looking at our depressions," Sweezy parried, "that the American capital economy can passively recover its post-depression equilibrium without the outside shot in the arm of a war?"
Concessions & Complications. This week Molotov presented the Russian economic proposals for Germany. He revived the $10 billion reparations claim (first made at Yalta), but offered to spread payments over 20 years. As expected, Molotov stipulated that some German reparations would come out of current production; he demanded a Soviet share...
One bull-necked veteran in a heavy black overcoat leaped forward and tried to wrest the rifle from the nearest cop. Another gendarme smashed his rifle butt into the attacker's face. Thousands of throats roared defiance of the police and the Government. Belgium, the European belligerent to recover...