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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style colonial imperialism is dead as an instrument of development. Capitalism must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described...
Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...
...that it was forced to curtail operations. That left only two small outfits drilling for new fields in Colombia. Three big U.S. companies (Socony-Vacuum, Texaco and Jersey Standard's Tropical) have put too much money into old, producing fields to pull out now; but they have virtually given up trying to find new oil for the present...
...Berlin, Brigadier General Frank Howley, commandant of the American zone, had to be patched up for minor cuts about the face. An unidentified civilian tried to crash the party given by some correspondents to celebrate Howley's promotion from colonel. Before he was given the bum's rush, the crasher threw his drink, glass & all, into Howley's face...
...jampacked studio audience (some had written in last summer for the free but hard-to-get tickets) and several million listeners and televiewers heard the first two acts of Aida living as it has seldom lived before. For his 82nd birthday, the great conductor had given the world's music lovers a present: the kind of exact and exacting, passionate performance that is in his power to give, dedicated with love and devotion...