Wearing identical light tan Stetson hats and the eager look of junketing politicians, three U.S. governors clambered off a MATS Constellation at Seoul city airport last week. Pennsylvania's John S. Fine, Colorado's Dan Thornton and Texas' Allan Shivers had been sent to Korea by President Eisenhower to see how the U.S. aid program for Korea was coming. What they found was not calculated to encourage an optimistic report.
In the next five years the U.S. will spend $1 billion, at the rate of $200 million a year, to rebuild Korea's economic rubble. But to the 153 U.S. businessmen trying to sell...
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