Word: tli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders of the Americas met under sponsorship of TIME-LIFE International to consider a problem of great moment to the free world: how to accelerate the flow of investment capital to areas in the Western Hemisphere where it would do the most good. The conference was so successful that TLI Director Edgar Baker began at once to plan a meeting focused on another geographical area. On a trip to Asia to test the idea on businessmen and bankers there, Baker found widespread interest...
...Stanford Research Institute had similar ideas and would be a willing partner in a meeting to stimulate international investment. S.R.I., a corporation founded by Western U.S. businessmen to research industrial, economic and scientific problems, was an ideal cosponsor. Baker and S.R.I.'s Dr. Weldon Gibson agreed that TLI and S.R.I, together might arrange a conference encompassing the whole world...
THIS year has been one of many milestones for our TIME-LIFE International Division. In the spring the combined net paid circulation of TLI magazines passed the one million mark. And this month the Atlantic and Pacific editions of TIME are ten years...
...magazines are sent to more than 700 distributing agencies over 400,000 miles of air routes and 200,000 miles of ocean, e.g., from the Tokyo printer to Auckland, N.Z. is an 8,200-mile airlift. Broken-field running through a maze of import controls, taxes and quotas, TLI often comes up against fluctuating money markets, which in the past year, for example, caused one nation's currency to drop from 300 to 780 to the dollar, and another's from...
Despite such intercontinental migraines, to say nothing of frequent bannings and occasional confiscations, TLI now delivers some 400,000 copies of TIME each week to every corner of the earth, all before the issue date. Among these foreign subscribers, the most common name worldwide is Smith (it's Hansen in Scandinavia, Singh in Asia, Garcia in Latin America). For the most part the subscribers are in business, government and the professions. But whatever their names or jobs, these overseas TIME families tend to support our original assumption. Says the TLI history: "Our readers abroad are a remarkably homogeneous group...