Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page report to the Allied Control Council, owlish Professor Calvin Hoover argued: 1) a minimum German living standard equal to the European average was required (not merely allowed) by the Potsdam terms; 2) in order to maintain this standard, Germany must import food and raw materials, export industrial products; 3) Germany's industrial exports must be in the same categories (steel, chemicals) as her prewar exports. On these premises, Hoover's report first proposed an annual German steel production of 6.8 million tons, later raised this to 10 million. The British are willing to see Germany produce...
Russians noted that Economist Hoover's colleagues included: Rufus J. Wysor, ex-president of Republic Steel; Elis S. Hoglund, prewar head of G.M.'s Opel works in Germany, and their boss, A.M.G.'s Brigadier General William H. Draper Jr., former partner of Dillon, Read & Co. Sensitive Soviet noses smelled a capitalist plot to rebuild Germany as a bastion against Communist Russia...
Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's representative on the Allied Reparations Commission, called the 10 million-ton steel proposal "ridiculous," spoke darkly of revived German cartels. The crucial question: did the Hoover report represent the official U.S. position...
...Edgar Hoover's G-men saved the day is the tense story of The House on 92nd Street. The desperate goings-on centering around an inconspicuous Manhattan brownstone building (run by talented Swedish Actress Signe Hasso) escape the routine of cloak-&-dagger melodrama by their realism...
...veteran of 22 years of newsreel and documentary photography (THE MARCH OF TIME), set out late last year to make a movie about his favorite subject, the FBI -which he fondly regards with all the hero worship of a small boy-he plunked his idea right on Director Hoover's desk. For their story, De Rochemont and Writer John Monks Jr. pored over scores of FBI case histories and pieced together a selection of the Bureau's better experiences...