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...government official which was signed "The True Frenchmen." One night last October a bomb was thrown into the apartment of the editor of Casablanca's Maroc Presse, who advocated a liberal, evolutionary solution of the Moroccan problem. Another bomb exploded in the home of a French industrialist who the week before had made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror kept up against the Moroccans themselves. One wealthy local merchant was cornered in his garage and riddled with machine-gun fire. Another was killed as he drove to work in his green Ford Anglia...
Roses in the Deserts. Able New York Industrialist Morehead Patterson, appointed by President Eisenhower to press negotiations with the other "have" nations, promised to "move fast." But the U.S. was not going to wait for creation of the agency itself. To get Eisenhower's program started in spirit and fact, the U.S. offered a proposition of its own. It was ready, said Lodge, to conclude bilateral agreements with other nations to help them build and operate research reactors; the U.S. would furnish technical advice and help, and supply fissionable materials. In addition, the U.S. would throw open a large...
President Juan Perón has had more nibbles than bites since he began fishing for U.S. private-investment capital 14 months ago. Last week he landed his first catch: U.S. Industrialist Henry Kaiser, who signed a contract to manufacture cars and trucks in Argentina. Said Kaiser: "In all my life, I have never met anybody as effectively dedicated to the promotion of an automobile deal as General...
Almost as ingenious was an idea from Industrialist Henry Kaiser. At Cordoba, 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, he looked over the state-owned plant that produces cars, tractors, motorcycles, jet planes, light planes, gliders, parachutes, trucks and plastic boats. Kaiser's offer was to put $25 million into an assembly line for the state plant and to supply the know-how for building Kaiser and Willys cars. Until the factory could supply the market, Kaiser proposed to export his U.S.-made cars to Argentina. Perón signed an "agreement in principle" for the deal...
...Delegate Morehead Patterson, Manhattan industrialist (American Machine & Foundry Co.), found nothing at all to be encouraged about in the London talks. Said he in a cogent speech to the U.N.'s Disarmament Commission...