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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet itself is an education in present-day foreign trade. After telling how the Marshall Plan originated, giving its basic features, administrative setup, and commodity allotments to specific countries, the book carefully explains the role of U.S. business in the Plan and the effect EGA will have on it. Author Gubin devotes 13 pages to an explanation of how foreign missions in the U.S. make their purchases, how to locate foreign buying prospects, methods of payment and the documents required. He tells how to go about selling goods to U.S. Government agencies and even gives a list of key personnel...
...present, TLI is considering a third edition of How To Do Business Under the Marshall Plan early next year to incorporate probable changes in the Act's regulations and to satisfy the great number of requests for extra copies. These requests alone are impressive evidence of the U.S. businessman's intention to give the Marshall Plan the kind of understanding and cooperation that can make it succeed...
Marshall: If the present [Chiang Kaishek] government falls, the Communists will take power north of the Yangtze River...
...died in the Civil War. The great dining hall, now abandoned as such owing to a change in the eating habits of undergraduates, and the subsequently added Sander Theatre were certainly "utilities"; but the heart of the memorial was the Transept. Until after the first few years of the present century it had the aspect of a sanctuary. Those who passed through it removed their hats, and the Corporation, in granting the use of Sanders Theater, were careful to protect it from breaches of dignity and decorum. When, after an absence from the University for twenty-four years, I first...
...mention the change in the general attitude toward Memorial Hall not to criticize the manners of the present, for I think the change was inevitable with the passing of the Civil War generation; but the fact remains that the memorial aspect of the Hall has been impaired, due partly, perhaps, to the obsolescence of its design and physical structure...