Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tolstov was scheduled to come this fall and then decided to wait until spring. He was to give six lectures here. In the meantime, however, the Soviet Embassy failed to answer Langer's efforts to complete arrangements...
Canny Konrad Adenauer quietly set up a shadow Economics Ministry in his chancellery to take over if Erhard's prophecies flopped. But the professor's exhortations to Germans to wait for lower prices paid off. The inflation threat faded, and the German economy took off on the boom that has yet to end. Shortly after that crisis, Erhard took a hefty bite on his cigar and told a visitor: "Remember all those announcements I made about controls? You know how many I had to put in force? None...
...hours to hand in all their currency. Sleepy-eyed, they rushed to special conversion centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed to carry away more than 300 of the new marks (about $16); the rest was payable after a six-day wait. Unable to cross the border, businessmen and bankers in West Berlin found themselves in helpless possession of millions of East German marks that by nightfall had become worthless...
...under surrounding states. Though the Pennsylvania legislature in 1951 boosted the limit to 60,000 Ibs., Governor John Fine vetoed the bill largely because of pressure brought to bear by ostensibly grass-roots citizens' organizations for tax reform and highway safety. The truckers had to wait until 1955 before the limit was finally raised...
...many live to run away, And death can wait for another...