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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Sick | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Student Council dug deep into its pocket last night, distributing more than $3,388 at the regular weekly meeting, as other Council action paid off when the Corporation granted a Soldiers Field home for students' cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking Plan Approved; Council Donates Funds | 12/2/1947 | See Source »

That was the architectural price Sears paid to get into the Country Club District in Kansas City, Mo. The District is the second biggest, and, with its Plaza shopping center, the most successful privately run residential development in the U.S. Sears figured the price was small enough for a chance to tap the area's purchasing power. Sears was right. Opening day, 100,000 potential customers came to gawk at the tile and ornamental grillwork. Many went inside and spent a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Country Clubber | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Again & again he had proved that his well-integrated city-within-a-city (it comprises the richest tenth of Kansas City's residential area) paid off: profits to merchants; the good life to residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Country Clubber | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...losing streak last season to an 8 game clutch of victories this fall. "I've seen these crises over and over," he smiles. "They'll talk about subsidization. A student body ought to recognize that there's no real glory in a team that's been bought and paid for. It doesn't mean a thing unless it grows out of the actual life of the institution...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Cal Head Hails GE, GI's, Gridders | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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