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...listed plants in its territory, and shipped most of them to Germany's former enemies. The French had completely or partly dismantled all but 15 of theirs. The factories in the British zone (which includes the great industrial complex of the Ruhr) were the nub of contention at last fortnight's Big Three meeting in Paris...
...real nub of this business," said one Washington hand last week, "is for Nehru to see the country. If we are as good as we think we are, he ought to like us for ourselves...
Stock Charges? To Du Pont's President Crawford H. Greenewalt, a son-in-law of Irénée du Pont, the charge of "bigness," and that alone, seemed to be the nub of the complaint. Snapped he: "Since these relationships [between Du Pont and the other companies] have been a matter of public information for many years, the motive for this suit must arise out of a determination ... to attack bigness in business as such." The New York Herald Tribune agreed. It gave the back of its hand to Tom Clark for "Pecksniffian" charges, and said: "Mere...
...Nub of the Matter. The grand jury and the House committee each truculently proclaimed its authority, competed for witnesses. Committeeman Richard Nixon said angrily that a whitewashing was in the making in the grand jury...
...token of victory over Maroglio, bumbling Czar Miranda immediately announced a new economic policy. The nub of it: forget about dollars. Said he: "To try to get more dollars out of the U.S. is merely a waste of time." What Argentina should do, he told a meeting of provincial finance ministers, was to buy outside the dollar circuit, as it was already doing in the case of newsprint (from Finland) and of oil (from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying...