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...International Monetary Fund last week took its first solid step toward providing a stabilized basis for world trade. It fixed the currency values of 32 member nations at existing exchange rates (in terms of U.S. dollars or gold). Notably, this step was taken with no fuss; cutthroat currency manipulations, which many economists had feared as a preliminary, did not happen...
Last week, Brazilian aviation was busting out all over. It took but three planes to start a commercial airline, and stock deals, franchise fights and cutthroat competition recalled the dash, vision and buccaneering spirit of 19th Century U.S. railroading...
Actually the swarm of new airlines has dimmed the future of all unscheduled carriers. They can now fly without CAB permission. But so many have started up that CAB will probably bring them under strict regulation to prevent cutthroat competition and keep flying as safe as it is. If that happens, many a vet line will have to fold its wings...
...went to Sweden last summer, blandly asked if he could enter a private, cutthroat mile race featuring Sweden's top swifties. Grumpy Gunder Hägg objected, then consented if Hansenne lagged behind the field, kept out of the way. The man Hansenne beat that day was the right...
...least one thing besides the theater their minds meet. Along with Marc Connelly, Arthur Kober and F.P.A., both are passionate regulars in that famed weekly gathering of cutthroat bonhomie that first achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse...