Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stabilization Fund is much bigger than needed. The general Bretton. Woods view: the Fund is, if anything, too small for the problems ahead...
Quotas. How much the various nations will subscribe to the capital of the Fund and the bank is important, since a nation's voting power will be roughly proportioned to its quota. France and Russia wanted bigger quotas than they were expected to get-but the statisticians had not yet figured out what the table of quotas would...
Besides a bigger quota, the Russians were reported to be interested in a high gold value for the ruble...
...busiest spots in Rome since the Allies entered the city five weeks ago has been Vatican City, the only sovereign state no bigger than an 18-hole golf course. One of its busiest persons has been Pope Pius XII,* who has granted audiences to more than 25,000 United Nations servicemen & women...
...national debt, swelled by War Loan V, finally sailed over the breath-taking $200,000,000,000 mark. But President Roosevelt had estimated the deficit for the year at $55,000,000,000-some $5,000,000,000 bigger than it turned out to be. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau had underestimated by some $2,963,000,000 the actual Treasury receipts of $44,149,000,000. He had overestimated by some $2,207,000,000 actual expenditures of $93,744,000,000. Further, the Treasury ended up the year with an ostrich-sized nest egg of $19,406,000,000-enough...