Word: eca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avidly sought the appointment (left vacant by the death last October of Francis P. Matthews), and has much to recommend him: he is an official of the Central Intelligence Agency, an authority on Gaelic culture, and he lived for some time in Ireland as a member of the postwar ECA mission there (his fourth, Irish-born child is named Sean). A Yale graduate and Princeton Ph.D., Episcopalian Taft has taught English at Yale, Maryland and Haverford, has kept up his Celtic studies as a hobby. He will be the first Gaelic-speaking U.S. ambassador to Ireland...
...Interim Committee of the European Defense Community. Baltimore-born, Princeton-trained Dave Bruce has mixed law practice (1921-26), banking and private business (1928-40) with Government service: he was a vice-consul in Rome in the '20s, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947-48, chief of the ECA in France in 1948-49, then became in turn Ambassador to France and Under Secretary of State in Washington...
...year before was turned into a $3,000,000 profit. When World War II came, the company was ready to take on $1.2 billion in war contracts, turning out 198,000 trucks, 64,000 engines for Flying Fortresses, and 16,000 amphibious Weasels. When Hoffman left to become ECA administrator, Vance became president as well as chairman...
...spotted Humphrey during World War II while Humphrey was serving with quiet effectiveness on the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory Council. Clay saw Humphrey again in postwar Germany; Clay was in command of the U.S. occupation zone, and Humphrey was making a survey of German industry for ECA's Paul Hoffman. Clay knew Humphrey only slightly-and still does-but he was impressed by the rare combination of "forward-looking imaginativeness" and "complete normalcy...
...company law yers, after a stormy meeting with Attor ney General James McGranery, called the offer "outrageous blackmail" and said they would never accept such an "insulting" proposal. Meanwhile, the companies, except Gulf, were still awaiting trial of another suit charging them with over pricing oil sold to ECA...