Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back up the mountain road to the Petersberg drove Adenauer & Co. They told the three high commissioners-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's General Sir Brian Robertson, France's Andre François-Poncet-that they were ready to make the 22½? rate public at once. But the commissioners, whose powers under the Occupation Statute give them control over foreign exchange, asked the Germans to wait...
...After fevered cabling to their capitals, the French and British suggested 27?. McCloy beat the British down to 24?. Then the French proposed two conditions: 1) ending German subsidies that made for export dumping below cost, 2) freezing the price of exported German coal at the pre-devaluation rate. If Germany insisted on raising the export price of coal, then, François-Poncet insisted, the price of inland coal in Germany must also be raised; this would make Germany's steel and other fabricated articles more expensive in the export market...
...with the commission's prestige at stake, the French budged a little on the mark rate (to 23.8?); McCloy agreed to the anti-dumping and coal clauses...
...rate don't waste any tears on the team up at Andover this afternoon-save them for the Stadium...
Cornell is the best football team Harvard will face in the Stadium all fall. It has depth, experience, and tremendous team speed, speed great enough to cause Art Valpey to rate it one of the four fastest teams in the country. And Coach George "Lefty" James never had it so good...