Word: ica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spell out the importance of the program, the President had summoned some top brass, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, ICA Director John Hollister, and two Capitol Hill veterans now on Ike's foreign affairs staff, Democrats Walter George and James P. Richards. But neither rank nor frankness could move the leaders to show much enthusiasm for the foreign aid program. They were unimpressed when Ike reported that his foreign aid proposal could be slashed $500 million through economies in military purchasing. They were not much more impressed when he listed...
...from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help. ICA will pay $368,000 to cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff for each, steady the flow of produce...
Last year in Iraq, A.D.L. acted as ICA's agent in drawing up an exhaustive blueprint for industrialization. Iraq is now reclaiming sulphur from abundant natural gas, making paper from reeds, building a date-sugar plant to use its huge date surplus. A gas pipeline is being laid; new plants to make rayon, fertilizer and steel are rising; the nation's industrial bank is being reorganized...
...Integration of the International Cooperation Administration into the State Department, a suggestion that will be welcome neither to State, which wants to keep the conduct of diplomacy separate from aid problems, nor to ICA, which has undergone half a dozen administrative reorganizations since Marshall Plan days, and wants no more...
...even in the interests of international cooperation, one problem bothered ICA: under Point Four requirements, each building must be marked with a suitable inscription showing that the structure was built by U.S. taxpayers. The customary brass (cost: $7) or wooden (cost: about $2) plaques would be too expensive to install on buildings that cost $15 apiece. Besides, said one ICA health official, "brass and wood plaques are used to dignify a structure. You can't do that with these buildings." Last week the problem was solved. The markers will be suitably inscribed in the floor section of the concrete...