Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carlson, had come back to the U.S. from Australia to become his third wife, and he was naturally impatient to get the details concluded-he was short of dollars and planned to travel on Mildred's funds until he got to Bermuda and a rapprochement with the British pound...
...pension 800% (to $6,926 a year), Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated a quiet 85th birthday at his home, Ainola, near Jarvenpaa, opened a few presents, including 500 cigars, saw a few visitors, including President Juho Paasikivi, who brought along a present: a solid gold medal weighing about a pound...
Walt Jones, who broke the Tufts high jump record as a freshman, should finish second to Dick Barwise, and Jumbo Co-Captain Tom Bane and Bob Backus should take first and second respectively with the 35-pound weight. Aside from these events and a close mile relay it should be mostly Harvard...
Freshman coach Howie Houston will use now men at 130 (Frank Lombardi), 147 (Myles Cunningham), and unlimited (John Rosenthal). In addition, there will be a 191-pound affair for the freshman match only, and Tony Caimi, quarterback on the football team, will fill the post for Harvard. The Naval School is an unknown quantity; it is a prep school and competes against teams like Tabor...
Both Britain and the United States can take credit for this new development. The British put on an unprecedented peacetime austerity program, jumped their exports enormously, rebuilt their war-shattered cities, and installed a giant socialization scheme in a short five years. America, meanwhile, insisted on devaluation, of the pound, which turned out to be just the stimulant needed to snap Britain out of the dollar doldrums...