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...will be the biggest mixture of European currencies ever passed in one package by the World Bank-some $10 million in French francs, $7,500,000 in Swiss francs, the rest in British pounds, Belgian francs, German marks, Austrian schillings, Italian lire, Dutch guilders, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor...
...sterling area, sent French prices soaring, started a run on EPU's lending department. By last week, EPU's deficit with the dollar area was still a huge $3.7 billion. Equally alarming, the Payment Union itself was out of balance. Some IOUs (e.g., Belgian francs, Swedish kronor) proved "harder" than others, easier to convert into dollars. The richer nations grew richer, the poor got poorer. Richest of all were the Belgians and their trade partners, the Luxembourgers, who had piled up an unmanageable EPU surplus of $750 million...
...tall, pale Swedish petty officer calmly told a Stockholm court last week. What Flag Engineer Ernest Hilding Andersson had done-this navy man of more than 20 years' standing-was to sell a sheaf of Sweden's closest military secrets to the Russians for 4,530 kronor (about $900) expense money...
...year since 1911, Sweden's Taxeringskalender was proving a boon to the boastful, a murrain to the miserly and a surefire smash in the bookstalls. The book-a privately published almanac which meticulously lists the annual earnings of every Swede, except royalty, who makes more than 15,000 kronor (about $3,000)-sold 14,000 copies during the first few days after publication...
...some 21 countries, including, among others, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and most of Western Europe. This Christmas almost all of TIME's more than a quarter of a million civilian subscribers and newsstand buyers outside the U.S. can use their local currencies (kronor, piastres, rupees, bolivars, etc.) to buy their own subscriptions or to send TIME as a gift to a friend any place in the world where U.S. periodicals can be mailed...