Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb, who presented the bill to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, first consideration would be for improvement in health standards, then for teaching better methods in agriculture and industry. Webb argued that Point Four would strengthen the U.N., expand markets for American business, and generally raise living standards throughout the world...
Burma has shown governmental weakness because its democratic leadership was liquidated. India has done all it can to strengthen Thakin Nu's government...
This year's coal strike differed from those of recent times in that the United Mine Workers never used their usual "no contract, no work" slogan. Instead, after the last contract expired on June 31, the miners inaugurated a three-day work week in an effort to strengthen their bargaining position. Their aim was to cut down existing coal stocks without the odium or financial stress of going out on strike...
...Nationalist military news agency said three armies (possibly 60,000 men) were heading north from Canton to strengthen the defense belt around the provisional capital...
...government will fall under the weight of its own corruption if it does not receive American aid and is ostracized by the United Nations. If indeed France's demise is a possibility, we should do nothing to delay it, since an end of dictatorship in Spain would greatly strengthen our own world position...