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China's plan was born late in 1943, when Lauchlin Currie, then acting deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration, sat down to discuss it with FEA's electric, little, British-born chief engineer, Alex Taub. Taub had just completed a ten-year industrialization plan for Brazil. Said Currie: "China's alive. Why not do one for China...
Canvass of Industry. Taub and his FEA engineers went to work, made their first stop in the front office of U.S. industry. To one leading company in each of 52 basic industries, they posed this question: how much would it cost to put an economically feasible unit of your industry in China, capable of affecting China's economy nationally...
Last week the Treasury Department was glumly trying to sell 76,712 discarded caps (at $2.20 each), had shown them to milliners, UNRRA and FEA officials, buyers for prisons. Sales to date...
...package are powers over production, priorities, allocation, exports & imports, transportation. It is a sort of combination WPB-OPA-FEA-ODT-WMC, responsible solely to Chiang Kai-shek as the all-powerful President of the Executive Yuan and chairman of the National Military Council...
...FEA men got their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...