1970
by Rockefeller, David
1970. Letters concerned with the death of Rockefeller's mother; the expansion of Mexican Light and Power, which "supplies 52% of all the power produced in this country and serves most of the important industrial areas in and around Mexico City...At present practically all the electric energy we produce is consumed and unless we are able through expansion to produce more energy the program of the Government will be to no avail." "Our problems at present are immense. There are so many factors which enter into a request for credit with the World Bank that at times we feel almost submerged. However, I do believe we are making good and steadfast headway and that soon we will be able to obtain those moneys which are not only necessary to the company but also to the economy of Mexico and to a certain extent the well-being of Latin America"); David's brother Stephen, who "hopes to enter for his own account the dye-stuffs industry...he is intrested in producing high class dyes of which a great penury exists in the States today, since Germany is no longer supplying them"; the incorrect attribution of an article to Rockefeller ("Fortunately, however, I think it is reasonably accurate and therefore will do no harm"); Heineman's move to the firm Model, Roland & Stone ("it is a very aggressive and up-and-coming firm"); Heineman's editorials on the "inevitability of a U.S.-U.S.S.R. rapprochement" and "the desiribility of a Sino-U.S. rapprochement...I feel that people throughout the country are very much more prepared to accept the realities of Mao Tse-Tung's government than the State Department seems to think they are (Inventory #: 238601)