President Truman tried to stop the increases through a special price control agency that had been created during the war.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

A new report from the Global Fund says almost five million lives have been saved through the six hundred programs it supports.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The department,through its Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, has been supporting a project in Michigan.That state has a short growing season.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Another new group has been growing through Facebook in reaction to the Tea Party.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

The report said nearly all the mother-to-child infections could have been prevented through interventions.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

I have always been proud to be a Nashvillian, but especially now, seeing the love that runs through this city when there are people in crisis."

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Seneca Caverns and Smoke Hole Caverns have been used through the ages.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"The military commissions have been reformed by the Congress and the Obama administration in a way that prohibits absolutely the use of any evidence obtained through torture or cruelty."

VOA: special.2010.11.20

As we approached the mountain, the hills and gulleys bore the appearance of having been created by some vast, fierce torrent rushing around the base of the peak, and tearing its way through the loose earth....

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And in Washington this was the reaction: "To be honest,I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize men and women who have inspired me, and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

The economist says China has been trying to expand its exports through what he called the "right economic policies and measures,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

As we cross the river, he takes us through a lock he says has been closed since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09