Word: eca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped off a plane at Madrid last September, followed by an efficient-looking retinue of 25 men & women, was a Ph.D. from Syracuse. Professor Sidney Sufrin had been hired by ECA to find out once & for all just how strong Francisco Franco's economy is, and what might be done to help it in the interests of Western Europe's defense...
Last year, urged on by hard-headed ECA advisors from the U.S., Vanoni ordained a new deal. It provided simply that everyone concerned trust each other and tell the truth. Two months ago, their past sins forgiven and forgotten in accordance with the new law, the taxpayers of Italy filled out the government's new 16-page tax returns and shipped them...
...annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. The presence of Ginger Rogers, addressing a room jam-packed with delegates' wives (and a few furtive men), wasn't the only new thing about this year's N.A.M. convention. Also present were 296 top industrialists brought by ECA from 18 foreign countries...
Plain Talk. N.A.M. members helped show them some production tricks on a nationwide tour of U.S. industry. Last week the time had come for some frank talk. Up to a conference platform stepped ex-ECA Boss Paul G. Hoffman, now director of the Ford Foundation. The trouble with European industry, said Hoffman, is that productivity is too low and competition is hamstrung. Hoffman said that the U.S. doesn't want to tell Europe how to run its business, but if Europe wants to step up its output, perhaps it "should abandon the highly civilized competition that prevails in most...
Lightheartedly, French Novelist Pierre Daninos said yes when ECA asked him to write the captions for a NATO movie cartoon. Then, because this made him a foreign employee of a U.S. Government agency, Daninos received the usual four-page questionnaire asking about his 1) birth & parentage, 2) complexion & distinctive body marks, 3) emotional & mental state, 4) drinking habits, 5) aliases, if any, 6) connections with the Communist Party, if any, 7) past & present employment in detail-and some 50 other questions. Daninos filled in the questionnaire, named three character references, duly swore that he had no intention of "upsetting...