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...Hole. Fortnight ago, Foreign Economics Administrator Leo Crowley sent shrewd Stanton Griffis, executive committee chairman of Paramount Pictures, to Stockholm. He offered SKF up to $30,000,000 to buy for the U.S. all of SKF's output. If this fails, the U.S. will have virtually exhausted its pressure against SKF through its U.S. subsidiaries...
...still has an ace in the hole. It can blacklist all U.S. companies with Swedish affiliations, which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
...Accepted the resignation of Leo T. Crowley as Alien Property Custodian. Now, said the President, Mr. Crowley could devote all his time and his "superior abilities" to managing his other two agencies (FDIC...
...hair tonic. And there is not enough alcohol. Smart sugarmen in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean have converted all sugar possible into liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import in 1944 to 14,300,000 gal.-the already swollen 1943 level. At least in principle, FEA agreed to apply the same pressure to the rest...
...until August did any reporter even dig up PRC's board of directors : Oil Czar Ickes, the Secretaries of War, Navy, and State, and Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. But at that time, although Ickes was President, PRC's charter was amended to give Crowley authority even to dissolve the Corporation...