Word: eca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ECA officials in Paris last week proudly displayed the winners in the biggest painting contest of the season. The competing artists: 700,000 European schoolchildren, aiming for $4,000 of ECA prize money. Theme: "The free peoples work together for a better life...
...youngsters, responding in numbers beyond the fondest hopes of ECA, worked out the theme in oils, watercolor and gouache. Some of the subjects: builders reconstructing homes and churches, porters unloading ships and trains, farmers planting their fields with U.S. grain. In successive judgings, the original entries were cut to 1,500, then...
...German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect their plants. His smooth exploitation of the West Germans' desire for trade and of the opportunities for smuggling was working so well that occupation authorities were considering stringent measures. As a sample, the U.S. ECA mission to Germany took steps last week to withhold 6,000,000 marks in ECA counterpart funds from a Ruhr steel firm that has been engaging in illegal trade with the Communists. It was the first, but probably not the last, real countermeasure against the Wollweber apparatus...
Bedizened with flags and bunting, the dredge Manhattan, a $600,000 gift to Siam from the ECA, last week lay alongside a Bangkok wharf. After yellow-robed Buddhist priests chanted prayers, Siam's Premier Phibun Songgram, clad in gleaming white, made a formal speech accepting the dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine...
...lady stepped nimbly aside as a squad of ten heavily armed marines followed the first one up the gangplank. An ECA official who also got in the way was peremptorily brushed aside. A moment later, before anybody fully realized what had happened, Siam's Premier, waving a cordial farewell to his erstwhile guests, was whisked away upriver in a navy landing craft. A fusillade of gunfire splattered over the heads of the crowd, and the elegantly garbed guests on the dredge dived for the deck like well-trained rangers...