Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depended largely on its own, crisis-trained staff for foreign coverage-lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...many listeners, the most flavorsome department of radio's war coverage has been MBS's "Propaganda Roundup," transcription of foreign broadcasts in English. From these and from foreign language broadcasts monitored and translated, the U. S. public has had an earful of typical atrocity stories, mainly from the German radio. Samples: "Today a highly pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity...
...Foreign Orders. By week's end, war commodities were booming. The basis for this boom, as for better stock prices, was the calculation of the funds which foreign Governments have for purchases in the U. S. Belligerents who have defaulted on U. S. loans cannot borrow in the U. S. in ordinary ways, but the Export-Import Bank has funds that it can lend to exporters of U. S. products. Last week RFC announced it would be glad to help...
...before they need to borrow in the U. S. foreign purchasers can spend their existing U. S. credits. Last week Government estimates revealed that foreign investments (roughly 50% British, Canadian and French) amount to some $8,300,000,000. This includes $2,600,000,000 in bank deposits and short term credits; $4,000,000,000 in marketable securities; $1,700,000,000 in direct investments. By taking over the holdings of their nations, belligerent Governments will thus have over $4,000,000,000 for war purchases. In addition Britain is believed to have a gold reserve of approximately...
...markets, can set permissible limits beyond which no future can rise in a single day. And the President, in addition to his power to cut he dollar to 50% of its old gold-standard ralue (it is now 59%) has the power to regulate or prohibit all dealings in foreign exchange...