Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assistant Director University of Maryland Overseas Program European Division Heidelberg, Germany
...Gradual European disarmament would start, synchronized with and dependent upon political progress. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. would limit their forces to 2,500,000 men apiece...
...traveling New York security analysts were looking for cheaper buys than exist in the booming U.S. stock market. Though European prices have risen sharply in the past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books...
While the Germans are not eager for U.S. capital, most European companies (such as Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, Holland's KLM) rolled out the red carpet. The analysts liked Holland and Germany best, particularly their electronic and chemical industries. France and Italy, they said, have too much government interference for most U.S. investors; Britain is suitable except where nationalization is a danger...
Wherever the analysts went, they left a wake of rising stocks. Almost all the companies visited rose as U.S. and European investors anticipated the analysts' reports. Britain's Edwards High Vacuum climbed 58% with the visit, and Germany's Siemens & Halske went up 5 points just ber fore the visitors went rubbernecking through a Siemens plant...