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Word: denmark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflationary pattern varies. In Australia, also trying to expand too far too fast, prices have doubled since World War II, while wages have risen 160%. The government, in alarm, finally began to choke back on credit, raise taxes and cut down on public spending. Not even conservative, thrifty Denmark has escaped inflation. Denmark has a per capita income of $807, above average for Europe. Recently the Danes discovered that they were living too well. Lulled by the eager world market for their dairy products, bacon, beer, machinery and ships, they let wages, prices and production costs rise so high that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: WORLDWIDE INFLATION | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...visited the British realm of his wife Mary Tudor, who reigned from 1553 to 1558. Methodical William of Orange (1689-1702), declaring firmly that he could never "hold on to anything by apron strings," gently elbowed his wife and coSovereign Mary Stuart aside, and ruled alone. Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne (1702-14), was described by contemporaries as "very fat, loving news, the bottle and the Queen"; he took so little interest in affairs of state that he has become English history's most forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Husband | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...ordain women priests." But he added that the admission of women ministers must come as a result of whole hearted approval by the clergy, not because of political pressure from Parliament. He questioned whether many of Sweden's women wanted to become ministers anyway, noted that in Denmark, which has permitted women clergy since 1947, only four have been ordained (in the U.S., the Northern Presbyterians and the Methodists, among other denominations, have ordained women). Perhaps, said the archbishop, Sweden could follow the example of Finland, where women serve their churches as theologians, not as ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Small War in Sweden | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...sterling in the Suez crisis, the fund gave the United Kingdom a dollar loan of $561.5 million and stand-by credit of $739 million, its biggest single deal to date. The fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD TRADE: Hold That Line | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

King by Election. In 1905, after centuries of subjugation to one or another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: H7 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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