Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1943 the three have formed a monetary union, which fixes the exchange rate of each currency with the other two. Now they are ready to adopt a joint customs schedule for all foreign goods shipped into the Lowlands, hope within a year to agree on identical customs duties for goods moving among themselves. The five-year goal: full economic union, with no internal customs barriers, with identical taxes, labor laws, social legislation. If economic union works, political union would be much less difficult. Belgians and Dutch think that later France may join them, that Scandinavian countries may cooperate closely...
...purposes of ticket-selling, poll-taking, or any other form of solicitation. Investigation disclosed that the policy on this problem varied considerably from House to House, but that the House Masters are thinking of forming a joint policy that would apply in all dining halls. Should the Masters adopt the drastic Lowell House formula, every one of the College's threescore extracurricular organizations would be placed under a tremendous handicap, and it is doubtful that the student body as a whole would profit by an enforced isolation from activities in which it already takes far too little part...
America's 50 major research libraries have agreed to adopt the "Farmington Plan" to check over-expansion and preserve important research materials, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library and co-author of the plan, announced yesterday. The decision was reached at a recent meeting of the libraries' delegates in Washington, D. C., at which Metcalf represented Harvard...
...Will the U.S., in fact, adopt such a strong, clear policy of world leadership...
...course of the last year I submitted my resignation. . . . The Generalissimo has finally granted my request." Then he described how the national currency had been secured by silver specie until 1935, when the U.S. policy of high prices for silver drained China's reserves, forcing her to adopt managed currency. Managed currency depended on the people and Government "exercising self-restraint"; there had been too little self-restraint. "The managed-currency system that saved China contained in it the germs of the poison that the country is suffering...