Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan he announced at week's end: France would permit no open trading in the pound. But it still might be possible for dollar-holders (e.g., U.S. traders who import from Britain) to buy francs on the open market, use them to get sterling credit at the official rate through a French agent-in effect, getting a pound for about $3. The British feared that dollars would be diverted from Britain to France, that Britain's booming export trade would bring in fewer dollars than Cripps had planned on. Moreover, with the cheaper francs, French exporters would...
...this year is expected to exceed the 1945 wartime peak by some 14%. Among the reasons: over 90% of the locomotives now on order are oil-burning; oil-burners are being installed in homes at a record clip, and farmers are mechanizing their farms at a record rate. Since 1938 U.S. per capita oil consumption has increased 66%. The shortage, said Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, might last for three years. Most oilmen agreed...
Another of the stories is a neat though conventional sketch of a naval captain's obstinate and ultimately successful struggle to bring a torpedoed vessel back to port. The third is a first-rate portrait of a middle-aged man, veteran of World War I, who volunteers for "heavy rescue" work in London. Finding in his new job a pride he had lost during "the arid, desolate years between the wars," he achieves anonymous heroic stature by surrendering his life in a futile attempt to save a trapped man. This is certainly one of the best war stories written...
...rate, a month after the season's end ill health forced Coach Richard Greason Harlow to resign after 23 years as Harvard's mentor. His successor will have quite...
...free-swinging criticism, of speaking his mind: a good thing. Nowhere else in the college is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed; the rudeness of your peers does it, that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns to write, if not well, at any rate quickly and simply, and generally with the semblance of authority. This is what enables editors to bass examinations and stay in college, and the value of the lesson does not always diminish in later years...