Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury Building, pledged their countries to earn more and spend less, in an effort to balance the family budget by the end of 1952. Each member nation would slash imports, increase exports, try to control inflation; the sterling bloc as a whole pledged itself to work to make the pound once more freely convertible to dollars...
...pound group, George Graveson, captain of the '51-'52 Yale mat team, won first place...
...University students won honors in the 135- and 145-pound classes of the New England Wrestling Tournament, held last weekend in Boston...
John Ray, a sophomore, gained second place in the 145-pound class, scoring falls in the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the tourney. Dave Shapiro, former varsity wrestler and first-year Business School student, took first honors in the 135-pound group by pinning his opponents in the first period of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals...
Britain will get steel-1,000,000 tons of it-in return for 20,000 tons of Malayan tin ore and 55 million pounds of Canadian aluminum. The U.S. will buy the tin outright at $1.18 a pound, f.o.b. Singapore. The aluminum will be sold by Canada*with the understanding that the same quantity will be sold back by mid-1953, when U.S. plants will have expanded enough to ease the present shortage...