Word: financees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One finance minister objected hotly on the grounds that this might entail breaking contracts with U.S. businessmen. "Do you prefer to break contracts or break the sterling area?" Cripps demanded.
To wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all...
Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott sat in as a Commonwealth member who is also one of the sterling area's chief creditors. He provided what one official later described as "a lot of good dollar area horse sense," breaking into the discussion from time to time with such admonitions...
At a conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in London this week, the British planned to spread the austerity by asking all of the Dominions to restrict dollar purchases. Economist-Politician Cripps, with one eye on the dollar and the other on the general elections due within a year, walked a...
One rather plaintive chapter in the Government's booklet answers some questions which the AEC has been getting from would-be prospectors. The Government, it says, will not finance prospectors, nor will it lend or rent Geiger counters. It discourages people who write that they have found a place...