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
This study examines the operational performance of the Mexican National Railways from 1945 through 1947. It complements a previous study or war time progress in breaking transport bottlenecks to Mexican...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM79Date: April 13, 1948
Modern Turkey is a predominantly agricultural country. Despite the efforts made by the government since 1923 to further industrial development, over 80 percent of the Turkish people still derive their...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L251Date: March 31, 1948
Modern Turkey is a predominantly agricultural country. Despite the efforts made by the government since 1923 to further industrial development, over 80 percent of the Turkish people still derive their...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN3Date: March 31, 1948
This preliminary report is the fourth in a series of Papers which the Eastern European Division of the Bank's Loan Department is issuing to report on conditions prevailing in the various countries within...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L250Date: March 31, 1948
The sale of U.S. surplus ships to foreign-flag operators ended March 1, 1948. It was cut off by legislation amending the Merchant Ship Sales Act to be any further transfer of Government owned, war-built...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM76Date: March 30, 1948
Situated in the northwestern part of South America, Colombia has a coast line on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Agriculture plays the major role in the Colombian economy. Although remaining essentially...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L31Date: March 25, 1948
With this mid-1947 census of the world merchant fleet by magnitude, composition, and nationality, there is initiated an ERM series to be kept current at periodic intervals hereafter. The date (June 30,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM67Date: March 2, 1948
This study considers coal and coke traffic only. It does so because (1) Europe needs to move all the solid fuel she can as fast as her mines produce it; (2) Today, as pre-war, coal and coke comprise a...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM70Date: March 1, 1948
This study is concerned with transit traffic along the inland waterways and through the ocean ports of Northwest Europe. It compares pre-war with post-war use of the Rhine and related arteries, pre-war...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM62Date: February 26, 1948
This press release, dated January 22, 1948, announces during the quarter ended December 31, 1947, Bank operations resulted in an excess of income over expenses for the first time in its history.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 145698Date: January 22, 1948
This press release, dated January 13, 1948, is an address by President John J. McCloy before the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. The address took place at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 145650Date: January 13, 1948
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