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...change of attitude is taking place on the international scene that has potentially vast consequences for business men in the U.S. and in many other countries. In some parts of the world particularly Western Europe, there is growing concern that heavy investments by U.S. industry threaten to dominate whole economies. U.S. businessmen last year increased their direct investments abroad by $3.4 billion to a record $41 billion. This year the rate is growing even faster, and the ubiquitous Yankee investors are drawing more and more cries of "dollar imperialism...
Teetery Credit. A decade after the Revolution, Britain was still denying U.S. ships access to the West Indies and still treating the new nation, economically, as a colony. The policy of Secretary of State Jefferson was to threaten counterembargoes and demand concessions. Hamilton believed that conciliation and appeasement were the only hope. Outtalked in Cabinet meetings, Hamilton set about negotiating with the British on his own. He justified his interference on the ground that the then teetery credit rating of the U.S. economy required rapprochement with the British at virtually any cost...
...blunders of the Project, I think this was the most absurd and unnecessary. If the members of the Project really wanted to help the Negroes of Missippi, the most obvious mistake they could make would be to threaten the white Mississippians to force them to be cooperative. Mississippi's race problem will not be solved by pitting the nation against Mississippi with techniques of violence...
Some of the masters are known to be afraid that the influx of large numbers of girls into the dining rooms will threaten the intellectual life of the houses...
Should disaster threaten in spite of all precautions, try to relax, go limp and let yourself fall gently. However, Dr. Manson admits that such sang-froid "takes practice...