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Goldman was responsible for negotiating a gift in June 1974 of $12 million from the Alfred Krupp Foundation of Germany, the largest gift ever made to an American university by a German foundation...
Overall, Congress approved $3.7 billion in credits or loans so that Israel could buy U.S. arms between 1950 and 1974, making Israel the third largest purchaser of U.S. arms in the world (behind Iran and Germany). In straight economic aid, Congress provided Israel with $1.2 billion from 1953 through 1973. Until the 1973 war it merely asked to buy the weaponry rather than expecting it as a gift. Since that war, the U.S. has been providing military aid without repayment...
...cured by a quick sales upturn. Officials at other auto firms fault Chrysler for having tried to match GM in sheer model proliferation in the 1960s, but then being slow to meet the growing small-car market. With the Valiant and the popular Dodge Dart, Chrysler today has the largest share (32%) of compact-car sales, but its biggest product investment last year was in a costly redesign of its full-sized cars. Its one subcompact, the Dodge Colt, is built by Japan's Mitsubishi, and has not caught on especially well with U.S. buyers. Chrysler does plan...
...easily the world's largest arms merchant, with $86 billion in "transfers" since 1950.* America offers, it sometimes seems, a weapon for every need and pocketbook, and keeps developing new products (see SCIENCE page 58). Last year, after processing nearly 14,000 export-license applications from private firms, Washington's Office of Munitions Control approved sales to 136 countries totaling $8.3 billion. (Actual deliveries, of course, lag considerably behind sales.) This represents 46% of total world sales. Included were rifles and mortars to Guatemala and Paraguay, supersonic jet fighters to West Germany and Brazil, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles...
...keep pace with the Soviets, who have been working overtime on their own sophisticated electronics weaponry, the Pentagon's spending for electronic warfare will rise by at least 30% this year, one of the largest individual hikes in the military budget. Some of the more remarkable areas of research and development...