Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Egypt admitted that the Athos had indeed sailed from Alexandria harbor a fortnight earlier, but denied supplying the arms because "the international situation does not permit Egypt to deprive itself of modern armaments." The French, feeling at last that they now had a case against Nasser, were considering taking the Athos case to the U.N. Security Council...
...allowed to maintain foreign currency bank accounts for the first time since 1931. Equally important, trade has been liberalized until today less than 6% of West Germany's imports and exports comes under restrictive, bilateral treaties; all the rest is bought and sold on a freely competitive basis. Fortnight ago, West Germany removed restrictions on German travelers, will now permit them to take unlimited currency abroad, provided that the country they visit has a currency convertible with the Deutsche mark...
...Secretary of State Dulles clearly recognized in their public statements last week. But this time U.S. planners will not be caught napping. Since last May experts of the State, Commerce, Interior and Defense Departments and the Office of Defense Mobilization have been charting their course. In August, within a fortnight after Colonel Nasser's Suez seizure, the ODM had in hand a general "Plan of Action," now being worked out in detail by a crack Middle East Emergency Committee (made up of representatives from 14 top U.S. oil companies...
...Strings. This year the situation is different. The U.S. is not at war. But the rival candidate for the presidency, who has not held a public office for four years, has had no access to U.S. secrets. A fortnight ago, after Adlai Stevenson had said at a press conference that he would "welcome" intelligence reports, President Eisenhower offered him "periodic briefings on the international scene from a responsible official in the Central Intelligence Agency." The information would be secret and exclusively for Stevenson's personal knowledge, he reminded, but otherwise with no strings attached...
...interest that the Federal Reserve charges member banks for short-term loans. This tends to raise commercial interest rates and discourage marginal borrowing. In the past 17 months the FRB has raised the discount rate six times, boosted it to the highest level (3%) since 1933 only last fortnight. (Conversely, by lowering the discount rate, as Martin did in the 1954 recession, the FRB makes it less expensive to borrow money.) ¶ An even faster-acting weapon is the FRB's $23 billion portfolio of marketable Treasury securities. To nip expanding credit, the FRB sells securities through its Open...