Word: importantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abide by the rules in the future, the Fund has the power to expel South Africa or at least freeze the $15 million on which South Africa is eligible to draw this year. There was a greater threat. The Fund, controlled by the U.S., might persuade the Export-Import Bank to turn thumbs down on South Africa's application for a $100 million loan. In any case, the Fund had no intention of being pressured into boosting the price of gold...
...that TLI knows where its Andagoyan subscriber is, he can rest assured that he will somehow get his weekly copy of TIME. For in spite of transportation difficulties, censorship, bans, dollar shortages, import restrictions, iron curtains, and such, TLI managed last week to get 260,000 copies of TIME'S four International editions to a million readers in 180 countries and possessions overseas. Eighty-one copies even got into Soviet Russia-to "safe" official addresses-and TLI is sure that Russia, too, is "just the sort of place where TIME would do the most good...
...Assistant and Under Secretary, Dean Acheson was always a highly competent explainer, advocate and executor of Administration policy. He acted as State's liaison man with Congress. He helped steer such complex and unwieldy vessels as Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank through diplomatic shoals. With David Lilienthal he wrote the plan for international control of atomic power which became the basis for U.S. policy...
...Relaxation of the tight loan requirements of the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank...
...decided that Argentina would just have to borrow a lot of dollars. But from whom? With Argentines already owing U.S. businessmen an estimated $400 million, private U.S. banks were unlikely to put up any more. Nor was the World Bank, which Argentina had steadily snubbed, or the U.S. Export-Import Bank...