Word: know-how
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...American Research got together because they felt that standard investment companies and individuals were too thoroughly hobbled by Government restrictions and taxes to put up the risk capital industry needs. What was needed, they decided, was an organization that could combine a pool of venture capital with the know-how to put the money into the right investments...
...solution, says Knox, is to make the poorhouses richer by selling them what they most need: U.S. know-how. Last week, as a starter in his new job, Knox made just such a deal with China, one of the poorest of the world's poorhouses...
Would such a privately owned synthetic industry continue to grow and improve? The committee hoped so, but as an aid it favored 1) a subsidy on rubber articles which contained synthetic, and 2) specifications requiring the use of synthetic in all essential articles in order to improve U.S. know-how for emergencies...
...Atom. The five rings got: samples of uranium, information on radar, the Asdic detector and the VT-proximity fuse. But the Russians did not get what they wanted most: the know-how of the atomic bomb. The reason was simple. Said the report: "There was no one in Canada who had that information...
...land those millions was to make household appliances: refrigerators, kitchen cabinets, clothes driers. As they are made out of pressed steel, Murphy already had the know-how. The fact that Pressed Steel is entering a highly competitive field against several well-entrenched firms doesn't bother Ernest Murphy. Says he: "We've got to be in the top bracket. I've no time to waste on anything else...