Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British still buy more in the world market than they sell. But the perennial trade deficit, which haunted the Labor government and forced the 1949 devaluation of the pound, has been transformed into a surplus with the help of such "invisible exports" as Lloyd's of London insurance policies and earnings from foreign tourists. Britain has also benefited from the worldwide change in the terms of trade: since the end of the Korean war, the prices of food and raw materials (which Britain must buy abroad) on the whole have tended to fall, while the price of manufactures (which...
First contributions to the Furry Legal Aid Committee "have been coming is steadily since Monday," Robert V. Pound, associate professor of Physics, and treasurer of the group, said last night...
...Pound added, however, that no accurate point has as yet been made of the number of replies to the letter of appeal the committee sent out last Thursday to some 8,000 persons holding Corporation appointments, asking them to contribute money for the defense of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, under indictment for contempt of Congress...
Other signers of the letter, besides Edwin C. Kemble, chairman, Pound, treasurer, Ulich, Allport, and Rochow are: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Francis Birch '24. Percy W. Bridgman '04, Harvey Brooks, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., John T. Edsall '23, William C. Green '11, Arthur N. Holcombe '66, Mark DeWelfe Howard '28, Howard M. Jones, L. Den Lect, Archived MacLeish, Edward M. Purcell, Alfred S. Romer, and J. Curry Street...
...partial solution to Massachusetts' current prison woes is in the offing. Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, is working on a bill to reform the State's outmoded penal system. The Law School's Legislative Research Bureau is drafting the proposed measure, which will go before the legislature sometime next year...