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...Italian government, without laying himself open to charges of interference. One push in the other direction, appreciated by Italians: his efforts to get the terms of the Italian peace treaty relaxed. An indefatigable salesman for the U.S., Dunn is always on hand to dedicate a new bridge built by ECA funds, to present a shipload of toys from the American Legion, or a snow plow from the citizens of Jersey City to an Alpine village...
...only daughter of Andrew Mellon (he is now divorced and remarried). He served a couple of terms in the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, devoted himself to managing the Mellon interests for twelve years. An old friend of W. Averell Harriman, he became Harriman's deputy as roving ECA ambassador to Europe, and later chief of the ECA mission in France. Bruce knows the French economy as few Frenchmen do. With a politician's touch, he gets on superbly with France's politicians. He speaks perfect French, owns a trained musical ear, an art connoisseur...
...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...
...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...