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...suffering from the impact of World War II, which had forced it to close 100 offices, slash its staff. Charging ahead with postwar expansion plans, he cut back executive deadwood, hired all the bright young men he could find, started sending G.I.s around Europe on tours months before V-E day. Under Reed, American Express traveler's check sales have climbed 20% a year (1955 total: about $2.3 billion), outsell competitors' checks three to one. Money orders, available at 24,330 outlets (v. 12,800 in 1943), have doubled. Loans to businesses by the company's foreign...
France's wartime air-transport chief. He landed in France as soon as Paris was liberated, and by V-E day had Air France back in business. A year later, the line was flying 68 scheduled routes with DC-3s and other war-weary craft...
...last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating machine were added only after V-E...
...request for some presidential thoughts on the tenth anniversary of V-E day set Ike to musing. In May 1945, he reflected, he had thought that "it marked for me, you might say, the end of an active career." Yet ten years later, the end was still not in sight. Added the President, wistfully: "I wish that in this cold war we could now get some victory that would make us feel as good as we felt that...
Dispensing with the jargon of professional economists, Dwight Eisenhower last week issued an economic report to the nation that began bluntly with one of the biggest pieces of news since V-E day. "The paramount fact about the economy at midyear," he wrote, "is that the recent decline in economic activity has come to a halt." Two big specifics...