Word: msa
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...loudest wail during the past year has come from MSA officials.They charged that by agreeing to set the price of oil to Europe at the U.S. Gulf rate, three of the seven companies have overcharged MSA countries some $50 million since 1949 on shipments of Middle East oil. Three weeks ago MSA banned such purchases, announced that from now on the U.S. would buy no more oil for Europe in its foreign aid program...
...Committee on Foreign Aid drafted the working basis for the Marshall Plan. In 1948 Harriman became EGA chief in Europe under Paul Hoffman, and last October-after an interlude as Harry Truman's foreign-relations adviser-he moved in as chief of ECA's successor, the MSA...
...seven-room, $100-a-month house in Brussels, where he lives with his Berlin-born wife Lillie, a Hunter College graduate, and their nine-year-old son. Brown talks to perhaps 75 callers in his 14-hour day, including Russian exiles, contacts inside Communist Parties, European politicians and American MSA officials. He earns $8,750 a year, runs his operation on less than $2,000 a month, has carefully doled out more than $500.000 of A.F.L. money. His staff consists of only two secretaries and a young assistant...
...shipment of arms privately purchased in U.S. by the Indonesian government. The news spread through the gossipy capital of Jakarta that the government had sold out to the Western bloc. "American imperialism!" shouted the politicos. A newspaper published a cartoon showing Subarjo on his knees, offering Indonesian independence to MSA, represented by Ambassador Cochran dressed as a bride with a rope in his hand...
...given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...