Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reluctant about extending Argentina credit, that feeling had evaporated. At least six U.S. Government agencies-the Departments of State, Commerce and Treasury, EGA, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Export-Import Bank-had rated Argentina a good credit risk. The State Department hoped that this economic assistance might also help to make Argentina a better political risk. But that remained to be seen...
...Duke spent three years on the memoirs. As he acknowledges in his foreword, Charlie Murphy was his collaborator most of the time, prodding, suggesting, editing and cajoling, in Paris and at Cap d'Antibes. To help refresh Windsor's memory, Murphy supplied him with digests of diaries, court calendars, newspaper clippings, books and interviews with other actors in the royal drama. (The Duke himself had saved a bale of state and unofficial papers and albums of his own photographs of the historic days.) Then, while a secretary recorded every word, the Duke reminisced...
...biggest investment of U.S. private capital made in Italy since war's end, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) last week paid $10 million for a half-interest in two Italian refineries, plunked down another $2,000,000 for purchase of extra equipment. To help safeguard the investment Standard got an EGA guarantee that it can convert at least $14,487,500 of its Italian dividends into dollars over the next twelve years. It is the largest EGA guarantee yet, the first to an oil company. By the deal, Standard got 50% of the capital stock of Italy's ANIC...
...Paramount Pictures Corp. Nevertheless, moviemen did not think that the reports told the final story. Production earnings were on the rise, while exhibition profits, hard hit by television, were slipping. Some moviemakers thought that TV, which is beginning to look profitable to producers (TIME, May 1), may eventually help them as much as it hurts the theaters...
...with a $200,000 gift from the New York Times to help pay for it (TIME...