Word: hoffmans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best qualified to measure Europe's progress toward peace and economic health reported their finding to the U.S. last week in a glow of confidence. One was ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who was off on another round of talks in Europe, announcing "spectacular" results. Said Hoffman: "The complete recovery of Western Europe can be expected by 1952 even if the Soviet satellites continue to block trade between Eastern and Western Europe." The other report came from General Lucius Clay, home on a 27-hour visit from his headquarters in Germany to make his first direct report to the U.S. people...
Ruddy and jolly as his bright necktie, Roger Lapham, ex-mayor of San Francisco and boss of ECA's China operation, flew into Washington to report to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman. The essence of his report was that EGA in China was doing all right. That is, economic aid was being delivered in fair amounts (299,065 bales of cotton by the end of September, 17,800 long tons of flour and 94,000 long tons of rice by early October). Lapham seemed to feel also that the whole job was being carried out in a businesslike, American fashion...
...Paul G. Hoffman, wife of the ECAdministrator, was feeling shaky after her car was smashed up in a three-car collision near Monroe, La. Next day a friend drove her on to Dallas, where she planned to take a plane or a train to Pasadena...
...Hoffman found Bevin cool to a proposal to stop dismantling. The Briton argued 1) that it would violate treaties, thus weakening the West's case against Russia, and 2) many of the plants would be more useful in other countries than they would be in Germany. The first point could be argued endlessly; the second is a question of fact, to be investigated plant by plant...
Upshot of the Bevin-Hoffman talks was that preparations for dismantlement would continue, but that actual removals would cease until a U.S. committee of experts had examined the case of each plant with this question in mind: Will it contribute most to EGA if left here or if taken elsewhere? Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. "Personally, I'm in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks...