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Word: internationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Eurocurrency market has been one of the most important financial innovations of the postwar era. By opening a vast new source of investment capital, it has furthered international trade and development. But the $1 trillion credit reserve floating free from national or international restrictions also breeds currency instability and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clash over Stateless Cash | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

He scraped up a little money by buying small lots in Gulfport, Miss. Then he went to New Orleans, the main chance. While the International Trade Mart was under construction, he marched up all 26 stories to the top. "That walk up was the toughest work I ever did. Rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Outsider Makes it Big | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

It worked for him in Budapest, in Vienna, in Berlin-each of which he was forced to leave because of either politics or economic conditions just as he was establishing his film career. It worked for him most spectacularly hi London, where, with films like The Private Life of Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Ultimately, however, Alex Korda became a figure to be reckoned with there too, as a major stockholder in United Artists and, in the years after World War II, as a pioneer of international coproduction, with such distinguished directors as David Lean and Carol Reed. Korda's knighthood-obtained in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Like almost everyone else who came into contact with Alex, his nephew found the power of his legend and his charm irresistible. How could it be otherwise with a man who had begun his career directing short films in a disused trolley barn in Budapest and ended up occupying the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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