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Word: exchangees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of De Gaulle's first major steps towards putting France's house in order last December was stabilizing the franc at 493.7 to the dollar through a devaluation of 17.5%. The stabilization worked, but the low esteem of the franc as a unit of foreign exchange still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Sou Shall Rise Again | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Management was willing to make some concessions, but only in return for others on the union's part. Many in and out of the industry felt that the companies were willing to give perhaps 10? an hour (TIME, June 29) if the union permitted them to reclassify jobs, eliminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Man of Steel | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Birrell, a Presbyterian minister's son and a lawyer, began his jiggery-pokery after he got control of Swan-Finch in 1954. He increased the oil company's shares and exchanged them for the assets of other firms. The indictment charges that one of his biggest coups, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Infallible Strategist? | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Vast Ignorance. But the big fact about Peaceful Coexistence, 1959-the fact beyond Kozlov's toothy public grin and the U.S. Governors' convivial good will-is that it is a deadly serious part of cold war. Washington encourages a strictly reciprocal exchange in an attempt to dent the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Peaceful Coexistence | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

He was in fine, enthusiastic form at a Blair House reception held by Richard Nixon in his honor. To the State Department's Cultural Exchange Boss William Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Kremlin Man | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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