Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For one week, India's parched capital of Delhi (pop. 1,800,000) manfully put on the air of a Chicago at convention time. So jammed were the city's 1,850 hotel rooms that one enterprising manager converted 50 singles into doubles by adding divans that one...
Giant Unleashed. But the delegates from 68 nations, comprising a Who's Who of international banking and finance, had only to stray a few steps beyond this facade to see nagging reminders of that other India-the India of bullock-drawn carts, and hovels and beggars, the teeming, tumultuous...
But there was less hurry about the third of Ike's suggestions-the possible creation of an International Development Association (IDA) that would lend money to countries on easy rates for long terms. Under Ida, as the British call it, leans would be repayable in "soft" national currencies rather...
From avuncular World Bank President Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they...
Automobiles. To the Ninth International Congress of Automobile Elegance: "The automobile is one of the happiest fusions between mechanics and art ... A car's elegance must be a symbol of nobility of soul. The coachwork must be subject to the severe laws of aerodynamics. Coach-builders have made use...