Word: swap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, in approving ECA, Congress had authorized $15 million to keep this weapon in action. The money would be used to swap currencies. In selling copies to foreign customers, U.S. publications take foreign money in payment. Part of this currency is blocked; little of it can be used by publishers to pay their expenses. By trading the foreign currencies to the U.S. Government for dollars, publishers could meet their expenses. No subsidy had been asked or offered: no publisher would make a profit out of the exchange...
Last week the House Appropriations Committee, exercising that choice, cut the allocation for the currency swap...
...Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, he gallantly and persistently squired the Federation's Executive Director Jessica Allan, 43, around town (TiME, July 21). Winnipeggers put it down to official business. But when the pert Montreal divorcee stayed on for a few days, Winnipeggers began to swap nods and becks and wreathed smiles...
Anthropology studies Man in all his aspects, including his customs and cultures. Physical anthropology, which gives Man a much narrower look, measures his (and her) physical characteristics. The American Association of Physical Anthropologists recently met in Washington to swap some new measurements...
...swank Seminole Club. Last week, he began to think about moving his wife and three kids up to Mamaroneck, N.Y. (where he has a summertime job as pro at Winged Foot). But first, Claude Harmon wanted to take a vacation. He went up to Augusta, Ga., to swap a few tall stories and play golf...