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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banker Wallenberg, one of the chief reasons undeveloped countries today cannot find the foreign capital once readily supplied is that the savings in the industrialized countries are too low for the need. With money short all over, they have had to tighten up on credit and interest rates to check inflation, bringing on a survival-of-the-fittest competition among borrowers. Therefore, "projects with relatively low earning power...
Guatemala & Suez. The need for such protection was plainly spelled out by Banker Abs. Said he: "The statistics show that private investors in capital-exporting countries preferably invest in areas where they find preconditions legally and psychologically favorable . . . Examples of violations of private foreign rights, both in highly developed and less developed countries, are known to us all. Among the more recent are the methods applied in nationalizing properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in expropriating the United Fruit Co. properties by Guatemala, and finally in expropriating the Suez Canal." Abs also cited instances of indirect interferences with...
MANHATTAN BUILDING BOOM is slowing because of inflation and increasingly tight money. Millionaire Vincent Astor temporarily halted excavation for his $60 million, 46-story Astor Plaza skyscraper on Park Avenue because he cannot find necessary additional financing at 5½ % interest rates. Mortgage lenders say several other buildings among 29 currently planned for city could also be held up by scarce credit...
...Parkinson, is the old Trojan Horse ploy: "An individual of merit penetrates the outer defenses . . . babbling about golf and giggling feebly, losing documents and forgetting names . . . Only when he has reached high rank does he suddenly throw off the mask . . . With shrill screams of dismay the high executives find ability right there in the midst of them...
...land, an unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...