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...will be worth $165 million this year (last pre-ECA crop: $25 million); wheat, $535 million. The ECA people would have you believe it's the Marshall Plan that has done it. The Turkish Democratic Party says it's their doing. Both acknowledge a valuable assist from Allah, who brought rains at just the right time during the growing season. Most of the $294 million of Marshall Plan aid has been passed on to the farmer: 6,468 tractors, 3,242 disk plows, 6,176 tractor-drawn plows, 4,258 disk harrows...
...histrionics. In Teherran's Parliament Square, he harangued a large crowd, berating British policy in Iran. Shouts of "Down with the British!" welled up again & again from his audience. Mossadeq responded: "People, do not say, 'Down with the British!' . . . I want you to say, 'Allah should guide the British into the right path...
...national budget. The British hoped such economic blows would compel a change of heart, perhaps through a change of government. But there was an unpleasant prospect in this plan: a Red-led regime and economic chaos might replace Mossadeq. The septuagenarian Premier himself clung desperately to a belief that Allah, or perhaps the U.S., would somehow retrieve the situation...
...them all; the city contained the shrines of 360 deities. In addition to the regular business traffic, Mecca was host to pilgrims from all Arabia worshiping at these shrines. One of them was the Kaaba, a little building housing a stone which was venerated as a fetish sacred to Allah. To his fellow magnates of Mecca, Mohammed proposed nothing less than the sole worship of Allah and the abolition of all other gods...
...years Mohammed, with a handful of followers, struggled vainly in Mecca to convince the town leaders that there was no God but Allah. During these years he began to produce the Koran, which he said was not written by him but by God, and transmitted to him by the Angel Gabriel...