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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paragraph 2, you mention "... tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts which hold title to most of the property in Little's $60-million textile empire." Only two of Textron's 26 plants are owned by tax-exempt foundations or trusts, and one of those is the Tobey-sponsored Nashua-New Hampshire Foundation...
...capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described how the updraft caused by the helicopter presses the chemical against the underside of the infested leaves,"precisely where it is needed...
...America's answer to the challenge facing the free world!"-so President Harry Truman had trumpeted at its birth in April 1948. In a tremendous twelvemonth, EGA had primed the pump of European recovery, pushed ahead through Communist attacks and sabotage, plucked 270 million people from the brink of chaos and despair. By all this it had added immeasurably to the chances of the U.S. and the world for enduring peace and prosperity. In the words of its chief, ECAdministrator Paul Gray Hoffman, it was on the way to proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought...
...England, where the textile slump had already caused some 20,000 to be laid off, there was one bright spot. The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts for $20 million worth of woolen cloth. To get the business, mills had slashed their bids close to cost, in some cases below it. The catch was that the prices, as much as $1.25 a yard lower than those on civilian goods, were sure to increase the demand of retailers for cheaper goods...
Last year, said Joe O'Connell, the Post Office paid the airlines $94 million in mail pay; in 1949 the bill might run to $125 million. This, he conceded, "is not small change by any means. On the other hand, it is considerably less than what we are spending to support the price of potatoes." In view of the airlines' importance to the economy and to national defense, he thought a good air transport system would be cheap at many times the price. But he favored the Hoover Commission's proposal that subsidies be plainly labeled, instead...