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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound continues to rise, British economists guess that convertibility is still months away; that the government should wait until its dollar reserves are boosted from the present $1.7 billion to at least $3 billion. But even at best, pound convertibility would be limited to current accounts, would not affect the $10 billion in blocked sterling now held by India and other countries. Furthermore, at the start convertibility would probably only apply to the current earnings of non-sterling countries. There was no doubt that convertibility would be a great forward step. But it would be a permanent one only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Comeback for the Pound | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Republican victory in November probably would not affect the draft situation, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hershey Sees No Draft Change if Republicans Win | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...ornate mansion of their boss, Mustafa el Nahas, sipped Turkish coffee and waited. Inside the library, old Nahas and the party's other top bosses were trying to decide whether to bow down to Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib or to defy him. Their decision might affect the fate of Naguib's well-intentioned, energetic reform movement, and the future of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defiance for Naguib | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...policy will affect the '55 and '56 classes only. This year's Air Science 3 will split into two sections late in October, one for comptrollers and one for flight cadets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bostrom Explains New USAF Policy To AROTC Men | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

...scars, and a general increase in fitness." She did not specify whether she had used washing soda, baking soda or some other sodium compound, but the professor warned that the baths should be taken only under a doctor's direction: there was evidence that the treatment could affect the red-corpuscle count of the blood. To doubting Western biologists, the whole theory sounded like nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Live Longer, Laugh Louder | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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