Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wreckers. As aging legislators catnapped and clerks clogged the rear of the chamber, it became apparent that an adequate ECA appropriation and a strong draft law were essential. So were a farm program and some kind of a housing bill...
Monsters & Flim-Flams. The fight went on. In a stuffy conference room, John Taber fought a rear-guard action against ECA. Time & again the conference broke up in despair. But Senate leaders were determined. By Saturday evening, Taber's House support had fallen away. Abruptly, Taber gave in. The ECA got $4 billion (only $245 million short of Administration requests), to spend in twelve months, if necessary...
When ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman took on his big job last April, he promised that ECA would be run on a streamlined, businesslike basis. Last week he took a long step toward making that promise come true. Over the protests of offended career bureaucrats, he gave Comptroller Eric L. Kohler the go-ahead for a tough, continuous financial checkup on ECA...
...prosperous electrical insulating business. Along with Louis Szanto, Virginia tobacco grower, and John F. Montgomery, prewar U.S. minister to Hungary, Bator put up about $100,000 to buy Népszava (circ. 23,000) from its Polish-American owners. The new owners will fight Communism at home & abroad, plug ECA and try to keep alive the idea of a free Danubian federation. They hope to double circulation among Hungarians in the U.S. and, by smuggling copies into Hungary, become a potent voice in the underground...
Imports & Exports. U.S. foreign trade declined in April, the Bureau of the Census reported. From their record high of $666 million in March, imports were down 21% to $527 million. Exports, despite ECA shipments of $9.9 million, were down from $1.14 billion to $1.12 billion...