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...stepped off a plane at Madrid last September, followed by an efficient-looking retinue of 25 men & women, was a Ph.D. from Syracuse. Professor Sidney Sufrin had been hired by ECA to find out once & for all just how strong Francisco Franco's economy is, and what might be done to help it in the interests of Western Europe's defense...
Last week, two months ahead of schedule, the Sufrin mission finished its job. It had steered clear of the social whirl which delights and hampers Madrid's official world with an average of 25 diplomatic cocktail parties a week. Finding official statistics totally unreliable, Sufrin & Co. had fanned out across the country. They hiked up the Pyrenees, Guadarrama and Cantabrian mountain ranges to have a firsthand look at hydroelectric plants. They poked underground in Asturias' and Galicia's coal pits, riding in shafts without safety devices. They visited factories, farms, fishing centers, shipyards. They talked with workers...
Usable Luggage. In his Madrid apartment, preparing to leave for Washington, Professor Sufrin had his team's survey all wrapped up in a 180,000-word report; it included the first complete inventory of Spain's agricultural and industrial resources...
...highly elated!" cried Chairman Solomon Sufrin of the Rumanian Jewish Committee of America at Manhattan. "I foresee the end of all persecution of the Jew in Rumania...