How can the U.S. counterattack the Soviet trade offensive? Seeking a strategy, President Eisenhower last year picked a blue-chip team of U.S. capitalists, headed by President Harold Boeschenstein of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.* Last week the committee reported that the real cold-war economic challenge is to stimulate the export of more U.S. products, capital and know-how to all nations. It suggested a step-up in U.S. nonstrategic trade with the Soviet bloc, arguing that "if additional consumption of consumer goods could be stimulated, the result might be to produce pressures within the bloc, tending to divert resources from war potential to consumer goods."...
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