Word: immed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also has earmarked $8,750,000 for foreign atomic development this year and next. But AEC grants are held to $350,000, and limited to research reactors (estimated cost: $1,000,000 to $3,000,000). Ex-Im will lend larger amounts for either research reactors or power reactors. Several non-Communist nations and U.S. manufacturers already are discussing terms with the bank, which expects to make its first loan by Christmas...
Wiley turned on a vigorous campaign, handing out his card to people in the streets, flattering the ladies. Once, at the Leyse Aluminum Co. plant in Kewaunee, he genially seized a labor union leader, waltzed him around the floor, singing, "Du, Du, liegst mir im herzen," as factory workers chimed in with "Ja, ja, ja, ja." Davis, meanwhile, turned on an equally dynamic but better-financed campaign, got in his share of the stop-and-shake technique...
...them last week, after a nasty fight with a policeman, "you shoulda seen that copper! One eye 'angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...
...month after his return to St. Louis, Martin was asked by War MobiMzation and Reconversion Chief John Snyder to join the Export-Import Bank as a director. Within a year Martin was appointed Ex-Im chairman (at $15,000), presided over the bank's expansion of capital to $3.5 billion. Determined not to allow the bank to become a handout window, Martin once refused to make a loan to China that had been requested by General George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, insisted that he would never approve a loan unless it were economically sound. In 1948 Martin...
Within the next few months, the Brazilians hope to get from Ex-Im: 1) aid in refunding part of Brazil's $1.2 billion foreign debt so as to ease the repayment strain during the next five years; and 2) long-term loans, actual or promised, covering a large part of the dollar cost of Kubitschek & Co.'s five-year "Power, Transportation and Food" development program. Kubitschek himself plans to make a straightforward appeal to President Eisenhower at the Western Hemisphere Presidents' meeting in Panama. Another Brazilian of distinction who will work for the Ex-Im loan...