Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once more met the beautiful Chinese girl and the tearfully grateful father of the boy. "He was," said Bush, "a clean-cut, distinguished-looking man," though they never got his name. The father offered the two men $10,000 apiece, which they both said they refused, but they did accept $800 gold wristwatches appropriately engraved in Chinese: ". . . You will be remembered forever." Then Bush went on to Tokyo, Sullivan back to Bangkok...
Treasury Approval. Aramco says that changing conditions forced it to accept the Saudi Arabian income tax. King Saud insisted on an income tax instead of a royalty, the company maintains, because he wanted to get more money, yet give Aramco incentive to grow in Saudi Arabia by leaving its profit return untouched. Aramco points out that the U.S. still derives substantial benefit from taxes levied on the company's declared dividends and on dividends to stockholders of the four U.S. companies that own Aramco...
FIRST MEXICO AIR ROUTE for U.S. line nonstop from New York and Washington to Mexico City is expected to go to Pan American World Airways. CAB is almost certain to accept its examiner's recommendation against Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines for route worth $10 million in ticket sales yearly. Nonstop trip now is made only by Air France...
...statute for the International Aomic Energy Agency. By proposing an agency to facilitate peaceful use of atomic energy in 1953, President Eisenhower gave the United States a lead in the propaganda peace race which now may pass into the hands of the Kremlin. For the Senate might not accept the statute embodying Eisenhower's proposal. If the agency is created without American participation, Russia will have a concrete claim to the eminence in sharing in the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Even if the proposal fails altogether, other countries may begin to look to Russia for nuclear aid, the United...
Unfortunately it appears that Eisenhower and the State Department did not really expect the Communists to accept the plan. For, while the administration submitted the statute in March, Eisenhower only conferred with hesitant Foreign. Affairsmen Knowland and Hickenlooper last week, after Russian ratification had been announced. The problem now is to muster a two-thirds vote in time to send delegates to the first general conference. The administration's lack of foresight, compounded with an outdated distrust of foreign committments in certain quarters of the Senate, may have assigned the International Atomic Energy Agency to the fate of the League...