Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, they ran into the Maharaja of Jodhpur's personal pilot. "Come on up to the palace," he said. "His Highness will be glad to have you." They went, in one of "H.H.'s" 125 automobiles, stayed two days. "You ought to see that place," said George. "Talk about Hollywood...
...I.T.O.-International Trade Organization-which the Havana conference hopes to complete. That charter already permits (while deploring in principle) the use of preferential tariffs. It even allows a nation to lay down flat quotas on the amount of goods that may enter that country, provided I.T.O. approves. India's Bhabha said that this was not good enough. India wanted the power to set its own quotas, with or without I.T.O. permission...
...Pakistan's government had a budget, no one could find out what it was. The country started off with about 200,000,000 rupees ($60,000,000) from the Reserve Bank of India, but that was long since spent. Two weeks ago the British Overseas Airways Corp. was paid by Pakistan Government check on the Bank of India for transporting 30,000 officials and their families from Delhi to Karachi. The check bounced. B.O.A.C. subsequently got its money, but other creditors are still waiting anxiously. Civil servants in Karachi have had their salaries cut and their housing allowances stopped...
...paying three times the market rate. At that, its railroads have only enough for 20 days' restricted operation. They are now carrying no freight-only refugees. Indian warehouses are glutted with textiles intended for Pakistan, which cannot make its own and now cannot pay for shipments from India...
Jinnah's government, living on day-to-day receipts, has tried some desperate salvage measures. It imposed a $5-a-bale export duty on raw jute moving from East Pakistan to the jute mills of Calcutta (in India). The tax violated a temporary free-trade agreement between the dominions. This would probably provoke retaliation from India, which could stop sending all coal and manufactured goods to Pakistan...