Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned a lot about transportation, just the same, as he shuttled from railroading to one small trucking job after another, and he spent his spare time and money on books-the Bible, Shakespeare, and everything he could get on transport. By the time he had reached middle age, ambitious Jim Glynn seemed to be highballing down the road to his goal...
...Government persisted. Last week, after a look at the first few houses in the project, the Celilos decided that the move might not be such a bad idea after all. Admitted Chief Thompson, who had already spent a night in his: "It didn't rain...
...prove Harry Bridges had lied at his naturalization proceedings in 1945, when he denied he was or ever had been a Communist. When Johnson stepped down, the U.S. trotted out ex-Communist No. 6 from its stable of witnesses. Paul Crouch, a tall, black-haired Miami newsman who had spent 17 years in the party, backed up much of what Manning Johnson had said, added that he had heard a party leader in 1938 recommend Bridges for another term on the national committee although "he was temperamental and hard to work with...
...budget of 1949-50 for our department will be reduced in 1950-51 to $13 billion . . . and our defenses will be appreciably improved. There will be less waste, less duplication, and more efficiency-and the taxpayer will get one dollar's worth of defense out of every dollar spent." From ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman there was another encouraging report: the cold war was about half won, he said. But, he cautioned, "it is the easiest half that lies behind...
...spite of the outlay, the Information program has not overcome hostility toward the Occupation or the United States. The failure represents no lack of effort or want of size. Quality of personnel and production have weakened the undertaking. Unlike the French, who from the start have spent a large portion of their Occupation budget on the transmission of French culture through intellectuals, the U.S. has been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting...