Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the fund stopped trying to police gold prices. Henceforth, it announced, the job will be up to individual nations. This means that there will probably be more premium sales (by Canada, Southern Rhodesia, etc.). Paradoxically, that will probably mean that the fund will come closer to realizing its goal. The more gold that goes into the free markets, the less the premium for it is likely...
EILEEN DALTON Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, B.C.A...
...stars of British free enterprise. Steven Hardie, a brawny, 65-year-old Scot, had risen from an obscure position as a chartered accountant in Glasgow to captain of industry (scrap-metal tycoon, oxygen-tank manufacturer). He owned, among other properties, five farms in Australia and one in Rhodesia, a mansion in London's Mayfair. Known as a tough taskmaster, Hardie likes to relax with a good cigar, slips away as often as he can for a day's hunting or fishing. His hand is as deft with a rod as with turning a handsome profit. Winston Churchill dubbed...
...week's end even those Commonwealth members (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia) who had refused to recognize Red China, were watching Asia and Lake Success through Nehru's pink window. The proposals grew nearer and nearer to what the conferees thought China's Red Boss Mao Tse-tung wanted. In a flurry of cables and transatlantic telephone calls, St. Laurent and Nehru worked out a new cease-fire plan for Korea. They sent instructions to their delegates on U.N.'s Truce Committee, Canada's Lester Pearson and India...
...arachnids' life are contained in a new book, The Spider, published in England, by John Crompton (author of The Hunting Wasp). Crompton, who describes himself as a layman writing for laymen, writes vividly and with vast enthusiasm. At various times he has been a mounted policeman in Rhodesia, a shipping-firm employee in China, an R.A.F. pilot, a novelist, a beekeeper. He has read-and liberally quotes-the experts, including the great Frenchman J. H. Fabre (TIME, Aug. 22) and several Americans. But his book is larded with personal observations and reminiscences, and he pays his respects...