Word: exchangees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the first time, he spelled out details of how Egypt hoped to build the Aswan High Dam on a do-it-yourself basis, e.g., drawing on Suez Canal revenues (which gave him foreign exchange he did not have before) for the $172 million needed before 1962 for the project...
Wait for Autumn. Last month India's able, tough-talking Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari slapped a ban on all imports requiring foreign exchange unless the sellers agreed to payment deferments of from seven to nine years. British, Italian and West German suppliers responded coolly, though some West Germans...
City Planner Julius Caesar brought some order by decreeing that carts should move only at night; those overtaken by dawn had to remain parked until sunset. He also tried to straighten out confusion in the Forum by moving the Rostra (named for the rostra, ships' prows, captured at Actium...
Humane societies objected not only to a lion tamer's use of a chair to prod a bored lion, but to the TV appearance of rabbits who looked vaguely unhappy. A civilian patriot thought that spoofs of barracks life on Phil Silvers' You'll Never Get Rich...
Crosby's acquittal tasted particularly sweet to the Journal, since it had broken out 180-point type earlier this month to banner the acquittal on perjury charges of Mayor Terry Schrunk (TIME, July 8), another key figure named by Elkins. "The vaunted truthfulness of Elkins," crowed the Journfal, "was...