Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India, driving madly to fulfill its ambitious second five-year-plan goals, borrowed $360 million from the U.S. and from Russia, withdrew $302 million from its sterling balance in Britain, is printing $2.5 billion in paper rupees to help close the plan's "uncovered gap." Prices rose 25% in the year...
...Paper Pacts...
...alliances set up with uncommitted countries. While he approved the military implications of the so-called "northern tier" agreement, he criticized attempts to make it into an entire Middle Eastern policy by tying economic aid to it. He also hit the SEATO agreement as a "paper pact," without military effectiveness...
...paper, this year's varsity looks stronger than last year's injury-riddled squad which nonetheless swept through its season undefeated. Bolstered by several outstanding members of last year's undefeated freshman team, plus the return to form of Joel Cohen, the varsity has strengthened several of last year's weak events. On the debit side, however, the team lacks a good pole vaulter, shot putter, or broad jumper. This may create the possibility of an Indian sweep in these events...
...Columbia University's American Press Institute; of a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. Newsman Brown, who took over from an editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months to avoid the evils of monopoly, Sevellon Brown regularly hired bright young men with graduate degrees (and paid so little that many quit after a short hitch), spent...