Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinch. In New York, City Statistician Harold Hoffman glumly admitted that the cost of figuring out the cost of living was skyrocketing...
What the Wise Men Said. Last month, EGA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman declared that OEEC must take on the job of whacking up U.S. aid among the various Marshall Plan countries. So a four-man committee (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Italy) locked itself in a solitary villa near Paris, to make suggestions about how the $4,875,000,000 for ECA's first year should be divided...
That was all Cripps needed. He promptly arranged matters with Hoffman-and told the press about it before he told Parliament...
...Sellout!" Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul G. Hoffman had set up a $6,000,000 fund for U.S. technical advisers to EGA countries. Cripps summoned the National Production Advisory Council of Industry and proposed a joint Anglo-American Council of six labor men from Britain's Trades Union Congress, six manufacturers from the Federation of British Industries and six American industrial experts, including labor leaders. The NPACI agreed...
...those who interposed a "yes, but-" was Britain's Cripps. Cripps objected that changes must come slowly. Hoffman was blunt. Said he grimly: "I told them they'd have to hang together or they would hang separately...