Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British subjects will still be rigidly limited in the amount of sterling they can convert into hard currencies, the British action falls short of true convertibility. But henceforth, foreign businessmen will be able to change pounds freely into dollars (at an official rate ranging between $2.78 and $2.82). The result, so London hoped, would be to maintain the pound's position as Europe's leading medium of exchange-a vital matter to the British, who. with only 4% of the world's money, do 40% of the world's banking...
...Result was that when the frustrated soldiers and settlers of Algiers broke into revolt last May, De Gaulle was, in his own words and in a sense that had never been true before, "ready to assume the powers of the Republic." He knew precisely what assets he had?his own immense prestige and the fact that the only alternative was civil war. His technique was very much like that of the bandit hero of a play he had written at 15. In De Gaulle's youthful play the bandit, as he strips a traveler of his belongings, periodically abandons flowing...
...offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers uncorked howls that the bid was an "insulting courtesy." Result: the canny offer humbly withdrawn, no cut-rate building bill for the Finance Ministry...
...result, Columbia has awarded master's degrees to an impressive roster of the successful in journalism, at last nose count had produced 64 publishers, 67 editors in chief, 36 Washington correspondents, and 66 Timesmen. Says Columbia's Dean Edward W. Barrett, class of '33: "If anybody asks me if he must go to journalism school, I'd say no. It's not necessary like law or medicine. But for the average person going into journalism, the training allows him to advance five, six or even ten years faster...
...female subjects of gynecology's heroes honored. Three who suffered, willy-nilly, in the cause of surgical progress were the slaves Anarcha. Betsy and Lucy, on whom the flamboyant South Carolinian James Marion Sims (1813-83) operated repeatedly to perfect a method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...