Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this plight, Franco has looked abroad to the International Monetary Fund for an urgently needed loan. But an IMF team sent to investigate the Spanish economy is expected to report that before qualifying for a major loan Spain must agree to throw less money away on the building industry, devalue the peseta, eliminate multiple exchange rates, possibly open its doors to foreign investment...
...Military Camp No. 1, the big modern army base outside Mexico City, steel gates clanged shut on more than 1,000 railroad workers one night last week. Troops guarded stations, and the government-owned railways sent out a call for strikebreakers to man the trains. After two tries at dealing with Demetrio Vallejo, 45, the brash, baby-faced new leader of the Railway Workers Union, President Adolfo López Mateos set out to crush...
...consistently said that the commonwealth relationship could and should grow and change, and last month the island's Resident Commissioner in Washington, Antonio Fernós-Isern, sent Congress a bill aimed at modification of the compact. Concessions asked...
...second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint Catherine's monastery. The expedition packed in their own food supplies, since the 13 monks that keep the monastery cannot spare any food from the sparse yield of their parched garden patch...
...State Department commissioned Ralph I. Straus, a director of his family's R. H. Macy & Co. and an economist who served ably with the Economic Cooperation Administration, to study the situation with an eye to formulating a new Government policy. Last week, after distilling answers from questionnaires sent to 955 key U.S. businessmen, Straus issued a report that the State Department heartily endorsed as "a new and fresh look" at the problem...