Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some other continental delegates have been seeking to liberalize the arrangement on drawing rights so it would become a greater stimulus to intra-European trade. At one point French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a compromise, known in OEECese as "40% transferability of drawing rights." Under the Petsche plan, a typical triangular trade situation would have worked out like this...
Britain would give France ?40 million of drawing rights to cover the expected French deficit in trade with Britain. France by efficient production or persuasive salesmanship or by cutting purchases from Britain, might succeed in reducing its expected deficit from ?40 million to ?25 million. Under the old plan this reduction would give France no advantage within the OEEC system. Under the Petsche plan, however, France could transfer 40% of its British drawing rights to another OEEC country, for instance, Belgium. That way, the Belgians would wind up with part of the U.S. dollars originally allocated to Britain. In other...
...front door, Kanellopoulos all but collided with Michael Ailianos, Populist Minister of Information, who came running out in high agitation. Inside, everyone from U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady down started congratulating Kanellopoulos, who finally caught on. Meantime, Sprinter Ailianos, who had also found out about the Kanellopoulos plan at the party, rushed to Tsaldaris to tell him what was going on. Promptly, Tsaldaris rushed to the King. To prevent Kanellopoulos' appointment, Tsaldaris chose the lesser of two evils, agreed to serve as Foreign Minister under nonpartisan Diomedes, who had been scheduled to be his Vice Premier. The King reluctantly...
...flamboyant fashion, Chicago had given a lusty preview of the national anti-VD campaign which opened last week in more than 300 cities in 28 states. The U.S. Public Health Service, helping to plan and synchronize the local efforts, had arranged with the Communication Materials Center of New York's Columbia University Press to provide posters, car cards, window displays, pamphlets and match books...
...study the structure of protein, the basic substance of living creatures. Fibroin, the principal constituent of silk, is a protein. Scientists know that it is made of certain amino acid molecules linked together in chains. What they do not know is how the chains are put together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms start spinning their cocoons. If their silk turns out radioactive, it may prove that the particular amino acids injected...