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Ralph, according to his bureau chief, John Stanton, is a warm, round, emotional, faintly picaresque Mexican who somehow "manages to remind you vaguely of Queen Victoria." His seemingly inexhaustible, elastic and highly valuable know-how is the result of all that Ralph has been and is. His familiarity with Mexican ways is perhaps best exemplified by his faith in the power of documents. Unimpressed by the ordinary correspondent's press card, he designed his own. It has space for his photograph, for numerous stamps -also of his own design-and for signatures and counter-signatures. The TIME bureau chief...
...imported over 200 German scientists, mostly in the rocket and aviation field (TIME, Dec. 9), there were still thousands of cold, hungry scientists in Germany to whom Russia's offer might well appeal. If they went to Russia they would take with them the kind of mass technological know-how, theoretical and practical, from rockets to railways, which only the U.S. and Germany (and, to a lesser extent, Britain) had before...
...raided established record-makers for executives with know-how, poured out $3,500,000 to turn a Bloomfield, N.J. war plant into one of the world's largest record factories (annual capacity: 40,000,000 records). Only one problem remained: distribution...
...earnest, social-conscious Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired, and onetime deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, the first 13 experts of the newly formed Inter-American Construction Corp. were already consulting with Peron's five-year planners. Their purpose: 1) to sell Argentina U.S. technical know-how for the plan's 69 hydroelectric projects, port, canal and irrigation works; 2) to sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines, trucks, tools and necessary materials. Among the I.A.C.C. experts are Engineers L. F. Harza and Theodore Knappen, who once worked for Standard...
...will find his work cut out for him. Canadian Vickers Ltd. has produced only five North Stars at an estimated cost of $16,000,000 to the Canadian Government. Not one is yet in scheduled operation on T.C.A. (TIME, July 29). If Electric Boat's capital and know-how could do what Canadian Vickers and the Government could not, it would be the most important deal yet for a Canadian war plant...