Word: birla
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...financiers whose firms had bankrolled the Industrial Revolution; from Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany from Washington, Banker G. D. Birla from India. Biggest delegation was a 202-man phalanx of U.S. executives spanning the economy from Ritz Crackers to R.C.A...
...William L. Graham, 46, back from starting a brush fire for capitalism with his modest Private Enterprises Inc. in India (TIME, Aug. 12), who in three days in San Francisco lined up a U.S. fund of $250,000 and got an offer from Indian Industrialist and Banker G. D. Birla to match the sum, thus making half a million dollars available for small business ventures in India...
...share a common belief: the prosperity and strength of the free world are chiefly products of the initiative and resourcefulness of the individual working through the institutions of private enterprise. A few of the men who share this belief: Canada's Gordon Graham, India's G. D. Birla, Belgium's Paul Van Zeeland, Iran's A. H. Ebtehaj, Brazil's Walther Moreira Salles. Conference chairman will be TIME'S Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce...
...Nehru's able Minister for Commerce and Industry, Krishnamachari believed that "the private sector" could make a sizable contribution, even to Socialist-minded India. Last fall, when the government decided that India needed more steel mills, Krishnamachari proposed to give a contract to India's wealthy G. Birla interests. Pandit Nehru said...
...R.D.Tata (steel); No. 2, Ghan-shyamdas Birla (textiles), friend and backer of the late Mahatma Gandhi...