Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is why Britain is finding it harder & harder to sell in dollar countries. In a few other countries, e.g., Belgium and Italy, British export trade is running into trouble for the same reasons, but, in general, the pound position as against other "soft" currencies has strengthened rather than weakened. In other words, if the British cut the official rate to, say, $3.50 in order to get in line with the dollar, other countries would devalue their currencies to get in line with the pound...
...growing body of U.S. opinion answers, "Soon." U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder is about to leave for Europe in a mood to ask European financial authorities why general devaluation, beginning with the pound, should not start...
...Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustaf V turned 91. His traditional birthday fishing party was rained out (the day before he had landed a five-pound pike with no help from anyone); so he celebrated indoors, with a half-bottle of red wine for lunch, and a visit from great-grandson Prince Carl Gustaf, 3, who brought flowers and homemade birthday candles...
Most listeners thought they knew the singing-the pillow-soft pianissimos, the warm and velvety power even at full voice-even though at first some did not recognize the singer. In five months, tiny (4 ft. 8½ in.), once-tubby (201 lbs.) Dorothy Maynor had lost 72 pounds by rigorous dieting, slimmed down to a more curvaceous 129. But last week, as the first guest soloist on the NBC Symphony's new U.S. Steel-sponsored Summer Concert series, the little Negro soprano proved that great singing does not necessarily come by the pound...
...three scripters who rewrote the original screenplay have turned out an almost unbroken series of gags and gambits. For every ounce of Runyon's boozy Broadway sentiment they have added a pound of farce. Hope, past master of the triple-quip and the doubletake, tosses off this mixture with obvious relish. Little Mary Jane, though no Shirley Temple, shows pretty talent as a straight man. Hope's other helpers, including Lucille Ball and William Demarest, provide sturdy filler for an already meaty comedy...