Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign customers who need U.S. goods but lack the cash to pay for them, there is always one avenue of last resort. When both private bankers and the World Bank (which makes only loans guaranteed by foreign governments) refuse credit, the borrowers go to the U.S. Government's Export-Import Bank, set up to finance purchases of U.S. goods when other funds are unavailable. Last week three Japanese firms that wanted such loans were winding up arrangements to get them. To ease Japan's chronic power shortage. Ex-Im was closing an $11million loan to Kansai Electric Power...
...into the Urals for a several mile portrait of himself. A more valuable reminder would be railroad tracks across Siberia--which could spell out his name. Perhaps glass-walled skyscrapers with his portrait in stained-glass would work. Irrigation canals could trace his profile. Of course he could resort to the time tested method by building a pyramid...
When his work took him south to the U.S., Pop Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace...
Sportsmen will find New England ski slopes in exceptional condition this weekend. Most resort areas will be in good-to-excellent shape with North Conway, Franconia, and Peterborough reporting optimum conditions on all slopes...
...apology by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner J.M.G. James to Governor General (now President) Iskander Mirza, who is also the Pakistani cricket board president. "English players' defeats have upset their mental balance," said Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation for sportsmanship...