Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into EGA. With the launching, ERP became ECA, the Economic Cooperation Administration. This week the President picked the man to run it: Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Corp. and a top-drawer U.S. businessman (see col. 3). The job was no bed of roses; Mr. Hoffman wanted a little time to think it over...
Administration: By an Economic Cooperation Administration, headed by a $20,000-a-year administrator, a deputy administrator and a $25,000-a-year roving ambassador for liaison work abroad. ECA would be responsible for continuing reassessment of each nation's needs, would "work with rather than supplant existing agencies" such as State (on foreign policy), Agriculture (food), Commerce (allocation of items in short supply), the National Advisory Council (financial policy...
...pass the hot, sticky hours, he confided that his power was growing daily. The Boss had sent around a car for his very own use and some of the soldiers of the presidential guard now saluted as he passed. The people of Managua called him "La Muñeca Gordita" (the Fat Dolly). His belly shook and his great laugh echoed down the empty halls. No one was taking President Benjamin Lacayo-Sacasa* seriously, least of all Lacayo-Sacasa...