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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet itself is an education in present-day foreign trade. After telling how the Marshall Plan originated, giving its basic features, administrative setup, and commodity allotments to specific countries, the book carefully explains the role of U.S. business in the Plan and the effect EGA will have on it. Author Gubin devotes 13 pages to an explanation of how foreign missions in the U.S. make their purchases, how to locate foreign buying prospects, methods of payment and the documents required. He tells how to go about selling goods to U.S. Government agencies and even gives a list of key personnel...
When TLI had read Mr. Gubin's book, it thought that it could do everybody concerned a service by distributing it. The author agreed to work with us in updating a second edition, which TLI distributed to some 5,000 U.S. business and industrial leaders. Another 3,000 copies went to Congressman Walter C. Ploeser, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, for distribution to key members of this important segment of the U.S. economy...
...Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when...
...Boxer, 43, best-selling authoress (The Soong Sisters, China To Me), and Major Charles Boxer, 44, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941, now a professor of Portuguese literature at King's College, University of London: their second child, a girl (their first, Carola, according to Author Hahn, was born illegitimately in 1941); in Manhattan. Name: Amanda. Weight...
Guard of Honor is sure not to please those who are accustomed to novels that passionately beat generals over the head with the common soldier and intolerant whites with the oppressed Negro. For Author Cozzens has performed the far more courageous and more painful job of putting down ugly facts. Unsentimentally, grimly, he says out loud what is often left unsaid-that in the U.S. "the big majority may feel that a Negro is a human being all right; but when you add that they want to see him treated fairly, you're wrong . . . The big majority does...