Word: know-how
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...Gaulle's insistence that France has a "vocation" to become a nuclear power. They tried to suggest, from their own experience, how costly nuclear weaponry could get (De Gaulle, in talks with John Foster Dulles later in the week, counted on the U.S. to help out with know-how and materials). Apparently British "sympathy" was mistaken for support. MACMILLAN: YES TO FRENCH ABOMB, crowed the Paris-Journal, to the discomfiture of the British delegation...
...bond trader, got interested in the project during trips to South America for Kidder, Peabody & Co. during World War II. He found that while Brazilian industry was starving for capital, money was stagnating in savings accounts and sewn-up mattresses. "The U.S. had been exporting all sorts of American know-how," says Dauphinot, "except a very basic one-the formation of capital-marketing techniques...
...with all their know-how, experience and wealth, Mesdames Arden and Rubinstein have not succeeded in evading wrinkles, why should...
...Force asked him to work out a way to help overloaded bombers take off from short runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock ownership) and installed Dan Kimball, then serving as General Tire's director of Government operations...
...tools, such as loan funds and technical assistance, needed to expand trade, says the report, already exist in United Nations agencies or bilateral agreements. But, the panel notes, they must be more fully implemented. The U.S. must provide more personnel to foreign nations, step up the spread of U.S. know-how, thus show the world an enthusiastic response to the economic challenge...