Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hughes went on to tell of "certain events" which followed a breakdown of discussions for a merger of his T.W.A. with Juan Trippe's Pan American. He said that the Senate subcommittee's assistant counsel, Francis Flanagan, bobbed up at Hughes's office and "started getting very tough about this investigation. ... It was quite apparent to me that this was the application of the screws...
...Europe and Asia. In Germany our policy has been dominated by the harsh and impractical Morgenthau plan, even though the Government pretended to repudiate it. Our German policy has wrecked the economy of Europe and now we are called upon for cash from our taxpayers to remedy the breakdown...
National Steel's Chairman Ernest Tener Weir figured that his costs since the first quarter, aside from those on coal, had risen $11 per ton of steel. His breakdown: scrap $4, labor $4, fuel oil $1, miscellaneous $1, depreciation $1. Scrap prices, which have jumped over $10 in two months, are now at an alltime high average of about $40 a ton and still rising. Under such conditions, said steelmen, boosts in the prices of finished steel were not only warranted but "imperative...
...Clayton was more immediately concerned about what had already happened while his back was turned. In one industry which was so vital to other countries that a breakdown in negotiations at this point could mean the breakdown of the whole Geneva Conference, Congress had virtually declared economic war. The industry was wool, of which the British Commonwealth nations annually produce more than 1.7 billion pounds, must export more than 800 million pounds...
...with U.S. opportunities, there were plenty of places to begin. Scandinavia had not sounded any alarm yet (though Russia has tied up Sweden's economy in a five-year trade treaty). The Dutch had not collapsed yet, though they faced a double calamity-loss of Indonesian trade and breakdown of business with Germany. Belgium was a highly bankable risk...