Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even though he needed help in the seventh inning of a game with the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Southpaw Warren Spahn got credit for a 9-3 victory, became the first major league pitcher to win 20 games this season. A veteran of 13 years with the Braves, Spahn moves into the record book alongside Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander and Lefty Grove, all great pitchers who won 20 games or more for eight or more seasons...
...worship, a malady rife in the TV world: "My relation to Ed is that of first sergeant. He's the company commander. Everything I edit I edit with Ed's eyes. I write with his fingers." He denies what many pros say-that he gets too little credit: "I get a lot of credit that belongs...
WORLDWIDE INFLATION is cutting into the $8.9 billion International Monetary Fund, which makes loans to bolster shaky currencies. With demand rising for IMF credit, Fund Boss Per Jacobsson wants to put bite on IMF's member nations to boost their contributions 30% to 35%. If raise is okayed, U.S. will have to add $1 billion to its quota of 2.75 billion...
...foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks. As a starter, the loan fund has $300 million available for this year for loans to promote private business. Applications are expected to total $950 million. Next year Congress has authorized $625 million more. By then applications may total as much...
...Jamshedpur, India. Topping a 500,000-ton addition under way, the expansion will raise steel output from 800,000 to 2,000,000 tons by late 1958, make the plant by far the largest integrated steel mill in the sterling area. No one doubted that the reputation and credit of Tata would win him his additional funds from U.S. banks and investment houses, which the World Bank would match with a loan...