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...immediate, causes of the setback were three sharp economic blows. First, the worst drought in 87 years parched the fertile south, forcing Chile to spend hard cash for foreign wheat. Then unseasonal rains flooded the North. Worst of all, copper-the government's largest revenue source-plummeted from 55? a Ib. to 27?, and with every 1? drop the government lost $6,300,000 in taxes...
...Farben was the largest corporation in Germany and the largest chemical corporation in the world. This organization planned and schemed as a tool of the Nazi regime. The Allied Control Council has agreed that the economic power of cartels, syndicates, trusts and combines will be eliminated. We are committed and determined to seek out and destroy the sources of Germany's once powerful aggressive industrial might...
Hans Kohn, professor of History at CCNY, again teaches the two largest courses, History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth Century Continental Europe, and Government s-178, The World in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of International Relations...
...chance to do so without embarrassment. This summer Paepcke expects to play host to USIA Boss Arthur Larson, Boston & Maine President Patrick McGinnis, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, and a host of presidents and heirs apparent from some of the nation's largest companies. As for the 225 executives who have already attended Aspen, they consider the institute their second alma mater. Says Steelman Clarence Randall: "I am still in a very warm glow over my adventure at Aspen. It ought to be required for every man holding substantial responsibility in the business world...
Died. Hugh Roy Cullen, 76, Texas millionaire and philanthropist, founder-head of the Quintana Petroleum Corp., largest independent oil company in the Southwest, who gave away something like 90% of his estimated $200 million fortune; of cerebral thrombosis; in Houston. Texas-born of poor parents, Cullen left the third grade to work in a candy factory, dabbled in cotton and real estate, then (1930) as a wildcatter, struck deep into the 500-million-barrel Rabb's Ridge oil field, 50 miles from Houston. His method: to take wells others had given up, and drill deeper. After...