Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power to devalue its currency has long been a favorite weapon in trade war. Cheaper pounds or francs mean that exports from Britain or France are cheaper, imports more expensive. The British were reluctant to give up the unlimited power to devalue at a time when they must greatly expand their exports to meet old and new debts. (2) FREE CONVERTIBILITY OF CURRENCIES. Britain owes about $16 billion in foreign debts, mostly within the sterling area and therefore payable only in sterling. Britain had expected to have about five years to put free convertibility into effect, which would permit debtors...
Soon to be released from service, the C.O.s plan to expand their wartime program into a permanent organization. The Attendant is being replaced this month with a bigger publication, the Psychiatric Aid. With funds supplied largely by Friends, Mennonites, and Brethren, a full-time staff of eleven C.O.s will also publish handbooks for attendants and campaign for training courses in all mental hospitals...
...Zevin's real break was paper rationing. His paper quota was high (10,-500,000 lbs. a year) and his big premium business had melted away. This left him enough paper to expand. While most publishers were curtailing their output of titles, Ben Zevin expanded, picking up best-sellers as other publishers were forced to drop them. One bit of trade gossip: World published Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murder on paper alloted for Bibles. This year World sold 13,000,000 volumes, grossed $6,350,000 to become one of the nation's biggest reprint...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...Anglo-American negotiators agreed to do as much as they could to break down bilateralism and expand world markets. The proposals for an International Trade Organization (ITO) which the State Department's shrewd Will Clayton drafted months ago got full British support "on all important points." This global trade charter, sent last week to other nations for study, outlined plans to revise or abolish such trade restrictions as import quotas, export subsidies, tariff preferences, cartels and dumping schemes...