Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concession in the final plan he announced at week's end: France would permit no open trading in the pound. But it still might be possible for dollar-holders (e.g., U.S. traders who import from Britain) to buy francs on the open market, use them to get sterling credit at the official rate through a French agent-in effect, getting a pound for about $3. The British feared that dollars would be diverted from Britain to France, that Britain's booming export trade would bring in fewer dollars than Cripps had planned on. Moreover, with the cheaper francs...
...have been, entitled to wear the "H" from the earliest days to the end of the academic year 1921-22. The list shows that G. P. Gardner '10 has won his letter in four sports, more than any other man. Apparently, however, no one has to his credit as many "H's" as George Owen '23 will hold. Unless he is injured or some unforeseen event occurs, when he ends his college career next June, he will be entitled to nine major letters--three each in football, hockey and baseball...
...definition of general education's aims (i.e., "to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values"), and who fail to see how the mechanical parroting of sounds contributes to the achievement of these aims. . . . It is to the Army's credit that it saw its objectives clearly and went about accomplishing them in the most direct fashion. It remains to be proved, however, that the Army's objectives are identical with those of our institutions of higher learning. ... It has been said that a speaking knowledge is the most important aspect...
Deflation. As expected, the Federal Reserve Banks took a tiny step to curb credit. With Federal Reserve Board approval, the rediscount rate (the interest which member banks must pay on advances from Federal Reserve Banks) was raised from 1% to 1¼% in nine of the twelve FRB districts...
...Director. With two of the year's best films to his credit, Kazan was a cinch for directorial honors. He also seemed assured of equal applause from Broadway: he had directed two of the year's outstanding stage hits: Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Kazan, 38, in whose work imagination and taste are vigorously combined, was clearly Man of the Year in that vague enclave known as Show Business...