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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broader Community." These industries now operate under precisely the kind of artificial conditions which ECA's Paul Hoffman and other U.S. preachers of "integration" want abolished. The Germans sell their Ruhr coal to French steelmakers at a price up to 30% higher than the coal price for domestic German buyers. The French sell their Lorraine iron ore to German steelmakers at far higher prices than they charge at home. Tariffs, import quotas and government subsidies further protect the French steel industry from competition by lower-priced German steel, keep prices high, markets divided and output lower than it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: I Have Something Here | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...pocket." Taft's amendment lost on a tie vote. But an amendment by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges for a $250 million slash, just like the one already passed by the House, was pushed through. Final total: $3.1 billion, of which about 90% goes to Europe under ECA, most of the rest to South Korea and other non-Communist areas in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 92% of the Loaf | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Western chancelleries hoped that the overseas talks would be more than just another regional conference. ECA and the North Atlantic Treaty had arrested the first wave of Communist expansion on the European front. The Red tide, meanwhile, had rolled unchecked over much of Asia. Western diplomats were learning that the front against Communism was meaningless unless worked out on a global basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: With Utmost Vigor | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...match the Communist hold on workers in north Italy's heavy industries and in communications. But CISL dominates textile, tobacco and office workers, is gaining among metal workers, leads the CGIL in south Italy. It has won an accolade from ECA Chief James Zellerbach for "courage and competence" and for "strengthening . . . democratic government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: CISL | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...McLaughlin, 40, a publicity man and an old Boston friend, and Thomas McCann, 34, a onetime U.S. vice consul in Rome, and formed the Trieste Shoe Co. Last week, after nine months of negotiations, Saitz put over his complicated deal to bail out Fleetwood. AMG in Trieste, working with ECA, lent Saitz $190,000 on the machinery (valued at only $47,000 by the bankruptcy court), and another $23,000 to cover shipping, installation costs, etc. in Trieste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Is Everybody Happy? | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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