This press release points out that the Bank embarked on several new types of financing operations during the past year. It authorized the granting of its first credits for development purposes, in two...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148964Date: September 29, 1948
This report records the remarks delivered by Mr. John J. McCloy, President of the Bank, in presenting the third annual report of the Bank to the Board of Governors at the second session, September 29,...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 125835Date: September 28, 1948Author:
McCloy, John J.
This press release is an address given by Eugene R. Black, Executive Director for the Bank, before the Savings Banks Association of Massachusetts on September 16, 1948. The address was delivered in Swampscott,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146466Date: September 16, 1948
This report discusses Colombia's economy. It reviews natural resources and production in agriculture, industry, electric power and transportation sectors; the political situation; internal financial and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN4Date: August 31, 1948
The iron and steel industry of Italy is one of the oldest in Europe and -prior to 1860 the country ranked as one of the largest iron and steel producers in the world. This position was lost with the introduction...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM105Date: August 16, 1948
This press release announces the Bank has made a loan to six Dutch shipping companies to purchase six ships on August 9, 1948. The loans are in the form of serial mortgage notes guaranteed by the Kingdom...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146365Date: August 9, 1948
Steel production in Europe as a whole has reached a rate of about 61 million tons per year which is about 85 percent of the 1937 level of production. Excluding Russia and Western Germany, production in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM100Date: July 26, 1948
This press release announces the appointment of Grant Forbes as liaison between the Bank and the Economic Cooperation Administration and the Office of European Economic Cooperation in Paris on July 26,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146360Date: July 26, 1948
This transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) held on July 13, 1948 covers the following: (i)approval of the previous...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 135735Date: July 13, 1948
This press release is an address given by E. Fleetwood Dunstan, Director of Marketing for the Bank on June 14, 1948. The address was given at the Investment Dealers Association of Canada at Murray Bay,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146312Date: June 14, 1948
This report considers the financing of six ships for the Dutch merchant marine in December 1947. The ships were purchased from the Waterman Steamship Corporation, Mobile, Alabama to be operated in regular...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM91Date: June 11, 1948
The Bank has been asked to lend $12 million to four of the largest Dutch shipping companies for the purchase of six C-3 cargo liners at $2 million each. The ships are to be bought for U.S. currency from...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM95Date: June 9, 1948Author:
Wubnig, Arthur
This report records the remarks delivered by Mr. John J. MeCloy, President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, before the Foreign policy association, Cincinnati, Ohio, in June 1948....
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 125831Date: June 1, 1948Author:
McCloy, John J.
This press release is an address given by President McCloy before the Foreign Policy Association on June 1, 1948. The address was delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146259Date: June 1, 1948
The European inland transport to operate at top efficiency, full use must be made of the existing network of rivers, canals, and inland ports, of the existing fleet of tugs, barges, and motor craft. A...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM80Date: May 21, 1948
This press release is an address given by W.A.B. Iliff, Loan Director of the Bank before the World Trade Week Convention on May 20, 1948. The address was delivered in Detroit, Michigan.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146255Date: May 20, 1948
This press release announces The Bank reporting a net excess of income over expenses for The Bank's entire existence on April 21, 1948. The excess is in the amount of 1,178,792 million US Dollars.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 146046Date: April 21, 1948
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