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...relations, now approaching a postwar low, between U.S. companies and the Japanese government. Though U.S. industry has poured more than $229 million into Japan since the war, some 70 applications for $34 million in new investments are gathering dust in the files of Japan's powerful Foreign In vestment Council. Fortnight ago, FOAdministrator Harold Stassen announced a plan to guarantee future U.S. investments in Japan. Four companies applied for such guarantee, but none was approved by Japan, and none is likely to be. Reason: the government regards FOA's plan as a reflection upon Japan's "stability...
...women -ranging from housewives to the owner of a tungsten mine -bought solid stocks including such blue chips as Union Carbide (up 12 points, to 86) and Consolidated Edison (up 5 points, to 46). In eleven months they made $1,500, or 12% on their in vestment...
Flight was about the only choice left for the 880 French businesses with an in vestment of $240 million in Northern Indo-China, most of it in Hanoi. What the businessmen wanted after Geneva were solid guarantees of freedom and a sound financial basis for trade. What they got was the familiar Communist doubletalk of vague, high-sounding promises coupled with arbitrary action that showed Frenchmen-and all Western businessmen-the hopelessness of doing business under Red rule...
...sharp contrast, President Conant's formal vestment of authority was, by his own request, quiet and inexpensive. The year 1933 was a black year--depression had its effect in Cambridge as elsewhere. Conant felt an elaborate ceremony at that time would entail needless expense...
...Government's grants and loans abroad have increased, said Sloan, from $40 million in 1939 to an accumulative total of $13.7 billion. But private in vestment is dwindling. In 1951's first nine months it was $583 million, little more than half of the amount in the corresponding period...