Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short book published only a month ago, yet already enjoying the worldly success of a third printing, contains this unworldly advice...
...preached the gospel of productivity, the continuous planning of improved production techniques. He found that European industrialists had a bias against new methods, just as U.S. producers had a bias in favor of them. In America's cities he told his hearers of ECA's success in stopping Communism, of what was being done and what remained to be done...
They had launched the Intra-European Payments plan, also known as "the little EGA." This is an important financial device which has had marked success loosening log jams in European trade. The Italians, for example, cannot buy goods from Belgium because they lack Belgian currency. The Belgians, therefore, agree to grant the Italians the necessary exchange to buy Belgian goods. Then EGA in Washington reimburses the Belgians with an equivalent grant in ECAid. Thus the U.S. dollar works "twice"-for the Belgians, and through them for the Italians. This device has released some 810 million U.S. dollars of intra-European...
...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...
...smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have always planned on the assumption of success...