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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "In one year EGA has done more for European unity than was accomplished in the preceding 500 years." The finest birthday testimonials came from the people EGA had succored. Eighteen months ago the 10,000 workers of Europe's biggest tire plant (Fort Dunlop) at Birmingham, England, faced what some of them called an economic Dunkirk...
...Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...
Cuba was not alone in the scandal. In Washington, Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger reported that the U.S. was swamped with the biggest influx of cocaine in 20 years. In New York, police in the past six months have seized almost 400 ounces of the stuff, more than in the previous four years. Where it came from was no big problem; the source, said Anslinger, was unquestionably Peru...
...vessels. Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...
...spur slumping sales, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. last week took a bold step: it cut auto prices 10% to 15%, by far the biggest reductions made by any automaker since the war. The slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...