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...little Laos, two-thirds controlled by Communists, French investment still stands at $4,000,000. French interests in neighboring, neutralist Cambodia total $50 million, chiefly in rubber plantations that provide jobs for 20,000 and bring in $15 million a year in foreign currency. But it is in fertile, war-torn South Viet Nam that France has its strongest hold and greatest stake: about $320 million in investments...
...mischief, Churchill loved the House. When German bombs gutted it in 1941, Churchill stood amid the war-torn rubble for five minutes, tears running down his cheeks, then turned to an aide. "This chamber must be rebuilt-just as it was," he said quietly. At war's end, he laid the cornerstone...
Hochtief seems to spell success in any language. War-torn Germany was a rebuilder's dream, and Hochtief's sales rose sixteenfold from...
Sihanouk might change his mind again, as he has before. In a formal note to Washington, he called for a halt to all American economic and military aid, which in the past eight years has amounted to $366 million. And so the J.S.-already striving to save war-torn South Viet Nam and "neutral" but tottering Laos from the Reds-faced another mess in Southeast Asia...
Slender Markets. Montecatini has been a dazzling postwar success story, rising from war-torn rubble to branch into chemicals, plastics, fertilizers, paints and synthetic fibers and to set up plants in the U.S., Spain and The Netherlands. But like so many other European companies in the postwar period, its growth has been financed by perilous means. With not nearly enough loan money available in Europe's slender capital markets, many firms have tried to finance their rapid expansion with short-term borrowings. Montecatini has been borrowing Eurodollars-U.S. currency that circulates freely among European banks and industry without...