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...Russians were learning new industrial techniques fast, were just about to reap a modest harvest by the time they switched over to total war production. After the German attack in 1941, thousands of Russian technicians went to the U.S., worked in U.S. factories, took home invaluable industry know-how. The 1940-49 figures show in part how the new knowledge paid...
...told Chinese businessmen: "You must share your economic power if we are willing to share our political power." He proposed that 50% of the Chinese get suffrage now, the other half in 20 years jvhen they are more thoroughly assimilated. The Chinese agreed to teach the Malays business know-how, through Chinese-financed training programs, Chinese-Malay companies and cooperatives. They rallied to the idea of a "political-economic partnership in which Chinese do not hate Malays and Malays do their share of work." But Dato Onn ran into diehard opposition from his own U.M.N.O. He resigned from the organization...
...with people," who hired Colbert out of Harvard Law School in 1929 to go to work in his Manhattan law firm. In 1933 Colbert was sent to Detroit as Chrysler's resident attorney. He got along from the start with Keller, who advised him to get some mechanical know-how if he wanted to get to the top in the auto business...
...Katz, cofounder of the Balaban & Katz theater chain, onetime vice president of Paramount Publix, longtime M-G-M executive, to form the Stanley Kramer Co., Inc. As president and executive producer, Stanley Kramer will contribute his abundant talent and his team. Board Chairman Katz will contribute his distribution know-how and $2,000,000. Once the company really gets rolling, said President Kramer, it will produce and distribute some 20 films a year...
...absence of any united States policy and the incompetence of General Hodges as an occupation commander, Reischauer said, left post war initiative to Russia and North Korean Communists. Hodges evacuated all Japanese residents in South Korea, including technicians, leaving the southern area without the technical know-how necessary for postwar reconstruction. Russia, on the other hand, sent Soviet technicians north of the 28th parallel; and the Russian sponsored Pyongyang government enacted immediate land reform...