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...European newspapers played up the Ferranti story as a prime object lesson to "prove" that the U.S. was not practicing what it preached. Biggest complaints came from continental businessmen who have resented ECA's constant pressure for freer trade and from Britons who have persistently ignored the requirements of the U.S. market. They complained that Americans were not permitting free competition in the U.S. by Europeans. Sir Cecil Weir, chairman of the British Dollar Export Board, even hustled over to ECA's Washington office to protest that Seattle had discriminated against Ferranti...
...economic-affairs adviser in the U.S. State Department from 1944 to 1947, calm, courtly William Lockhart Clayton preached the gospel of freer world trade and the responsibility of U.S. businessmen to finance industrial development abroad. Last week, as boss of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world-trading cotton brokers, Will Clayton showed just what he meant. In Mexico, alongside the highway from Saltillo to Monterrey, rimmed by 12,000-ft. peaks of the Sierra Madre, he opened a new $3,000,000 food-processing plant. Square, squat and red brick, it looked much the same as any other plant from the outside...
...permitting prices to drop, he hoped to step up egg-eating. This week the department began to support eggs at a new level of 37? a dozen v. the 45? average last year. It looked as though even the Department of Agriculture was finally being forced to try a freer market to ease the enormous farm surpluses...
...Congressmen from the oil states were already up in arms: ECA, which must go before Congress this month for more money, feared that they might force a cut, particularly since ECA itself had helped cause the sterling oil surplus. It was also a blow to the U.S. idea of freer world trade. Said one ECA oilman: "Everything that happens in international trade happens first to oil. If oil gets through this crisis, other commodities will also...
Kindly, 58-year-old Alsatian-born Conductor Munch no longer really had to tell his musicians to relax. In eleven weeks as their first new conductor in 25 years, his musicians were freer of tension than they had been for years. In his first speech to them he had vowed, in his painful English, to do his best to maintain the high standards of the Boston. He also hoped "there will be joy." Forthwith, friendly "Charry" Munch (pronounced Moonsh) won their respect as a musician, and their love and obedience as a man. This week, as he rehearsed...