Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Bretton Woods economic conference established the World Monetary Fund, the French could rate their currency to flit their own needs, and the result in a period of economic distress was shown in the frequent currency wars after World War I, making a mockery of stability...
...Fund, to which both Britain and France belong, was set up to place some controls over governmental currency manipulations. Despite the objections of both the Fund and London's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with...
...subject of General Education in the College, President Conant stated that he was hoping for a new endowment fund of $10,000,000 in the next five years, the income of which would pay the salaries of teachers added to the staff of the General Education program...
Looking to the future with an eye more towards something new, Mr. Conant repeats his proposal for a Graduate House, asks a ten million dollar fund to support General Education, and points out that the pressing financial needs of the graduate schools must soon be relieved. Looking backward, Mr. Conant points with pride to the University's fine teaching record in the Humanities; to the Society of Fellows; the new, improved library system; and the magnificent but generally ignored art collections in the Fogg Museum...
...practice nine times bigger than it was. In the VA he had 4,000,000 patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members; at Blue Shield's present rate of growth, membership would exceed...