Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Fields. During its bumpy, argumentative session the Senate had stopped Mississippi's bigoted Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo from taking his seat in the Senate, had finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...quarter ending Feb. 28. On the first 20 DC-6 transports delivered, it has lost over $5,000,000. (It hopes to make a profit on them eventually.) Republic Aviation Corp., now building the Army's fastest jet fighter plane, lost $2,134,220 ($536,220 after tax credit) in the first quarter...
...started out with $300 in cash and traveler's checks, a $500 letter of credit-and by cutting his first corner. He had a friend in Honduras buy his T.W.A. round-trip plane ticket from San Francisco to Rome and mail it to him. That saved the 15% U.S. tax ($158). Other tourists would not save as much by this trick. The tax is now in effect only on domestic travel. He met the black market in Paris the first time he handed the clerk in his hotel U.S. dollars to exchange. The clerk, who was running...
...plus 1% commission (on the outstanding part) which the Bank collects to build up a special reserve. The negotiations, which took only six weeks, were conducted for the Bank by smiling, solid John J. McCloy, its president, and for France by Ambassador Henri Bonnet and Wilfrid Baumgartner, President of Credit National-France...
Though many an American hoped that the loan would help France's Government in its struggle with the Communists, the French Government itself was playing down that line to avoid cries of "dollar diplomacy." Plain Frenchmen regard the Bank's credit as a U.S. loan. Said a middle-class Paris housewife, when asked how she felt about American aid to France: "The Communists say we are getting closer to the Americans because that persuades the Americans to help us. But what is so disgraceful about that? Isn't that what you do in business every...