TELECOMMUNICATIONS The general status of the telecommunication program is as follows: During the fiscal year of 1950-51, the Phototopographic Department of the Ministry of Public Works has, by the aid of the Marshall plan, produced the following aerial photomosaics, aerial photographs and enlargements, 1:20,000 topographic maps and 1:5,000 topographic planimetric maps, for use by various agencies of the Government and foreign contractors in preparing engineering reports and engineering plans for reclamation projects, water supply, mining and geology, and hydroelectric projects throughout Greece. At the average United States price for like work, the above photographs and maps have a value of over $1,000,000. To date the project has cost $265,380 in foreign exchange and 6,510,000 drachmas ($434,000), or a total of $699,380. The salvage value of the instruments and supplies purchased with the foreign exchange is approximately $220,000; therefore, the work was produced for approximately $479,380. Under foreign flag (Greek-owned) as of June 30, 1951. B. Steam driven coastal fleet: Ships in 1945. Ships on June 30, 1951 (300 to 12,000 tons).. C. Under construction in Italian shipyards and financed by ECA: Port activities during ECA period to July 1951: Ships arriving in Greek ports with ECA supplies.. Total value of goods as of Apr. 30, 1951 (direct procurement). Total tonnage liquid fuels discharged at Greek ports.. tons. - Rail transportation On July 1, 1951, Greek railroad equipment totaled: Locomotives _ _ Diesel cars. 1, 689, 837 $169, 282, 216 $29, 189, 941 129, 800 $4, 394, 959 254 33 12 281 76 357 4, 497 785 5, 282 Before the war, Greece had 275 locomotives and 6,000 freight cars and passenger coaches. Air transportation Before the war, a civil airline with seven aircraft operated between Athens and other parts of Greece. Annual traffic averaged about 7,000 passengers and 200 tons of freight and mail. In June 1951, the total Greek civil aviation fleet consisted of 21 operating aircraft. Automobile transportation Before the war, 17,300 vehicles operated in Greece. Vehicles operating on Greek roads as of May 31, 1951, included: More than $2,900,000 worth of automotive spare parts and tools were put on the market for sale to the public. 1 Includes Ptolemais, foreign exchange, $10,626,000; drachmas, 48,150,000,000. (Approved by Central Loan Committee but not yet contracted for June 20, 1951). Loans to industries INDUSTRY STATISTICS Loans granted to Greek industries, under both the AMAG aid program under the Truman doctrine, and from 1948 to July 1951 under the Marshall plan, totaled the dollar equivalent of $24,305,544 in various types of foreign exchange, and $15,214,029 in local currency counterpart funds, divided as follows: Repairs to a mental hospital, of four general hospitals, and the school of hygiene in Athens are also being carried out. Completed and put into operation by the Greek War Relief Association of America with aid of 30 billion drachmas made available by the ECA mission. Malaria_control: About 1,400,000 acres of swampland sprayed from airplanes with DDT. A total of 583,356 homes in 5,137 villages sprayed by hand. Sanitation supplies and medical equipment: Sanitation supplies.......... Equipment provided to medical and dental schools___ Fellowships (for study in the United States): Physicians Nurses. Sanitary engineers._ Sanitarians.. Fellowships (for study in Europe): Physicians... Nurses.. Health educators.. Nuclei housing: $3, 138, 000 1 241, 204 HOUSING AND WELFARE STATISTICS Total completed and under construction by contractors. 15, 703 13, 385 Total completed (aided self-help plan) - - Total completed and under construction (aided self-help plan). 26, 221 16, 835 Repairs to damaged houses: Completed by contractors. Total completed and under construction by contractors.. 45, 780 Urban housing: Total completed and under construction (aided self-help plan). 44, 103 Total completed and under construction... 2, 333 Completed.. 1, 984 Schools: Total completed and under construction___ Total completed and under construction (refugee repatriation areas). 1 Each supporting himself and an estimated average of 3 other persons. Including the relative giving care as well as the children. 'First month of operation. 4 Less than 100. ATHENS, GREECE-EXHIBIT 6 ALL POST-WAR FOREIGN AID TO GREECE SUMMARIZED THROUGH JUNE 1951 Athens.-The Economic Cooperation Administration (Marshall plan) Mission to Greece today compiled actual data on all foreign aid to Greece covering the period from October 1944, through June 30, 1951. The figures, in million-dollar equivalents, are as follows: 1 The above amount represents common use imports only; excludes purely military aid for which data not yet available. |