Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberalization did not achieve any of the objectives that Khrushchev had in mind. The carefully fostered image of a new, "reasonable" Russia weakened but did not fragment the Western alliance, nor did it win the Soviets any significant amount of new ground in the soft spots of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. It did not even persuade the cagey Tito to sign up again for full membership in "the camp of socialism...
...third of Syria's wool exports (ten times last year's amount) and more than half of the cotton crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
...draw the Greeks and Turks into what would amount to a condominium, Macmillan invited each nation to send a representative to the island to work with the British Governor and the local Cypriot Council. He proposed that Cypriots be allowed to become Greek or Turkish citizens while retaining their British citizenship. If this experiment works, said the Prime Minister, Britain would be prepared to go further and "at the appropriate time . . . share the sovereignty of the island with her Greek and Turkish allies." Complicated as the plan was, it had certainly considered everyone's feelings. But within hours...
...Finance Minister Antoine Pinay's public loan (TIME, June 23) was having among a people traditionally wary of government securities. In a single day last week Frenchmen parted with a record $18 million in hoarded gold to buy the new bonds, and by week's end the amount of gold converted into bonds totaled $52 million. "If this keeps up for a few weeks," grinned Pinay, "we may have to enlarge the vaults of the Bank of France...
...Africa's W. J. Busschau, manager of the New Consolidated Gold Fields, Ltd. and one of the world's leading gold experts, argues persuasively that while the free-world money supply has increased fourfold since 1938, gold stocks are up only 40%. To make this comparatively small amount finance the growing volume of world trade, says Busschau, the price should be hiked, not just by the U.S. but by world agreement so that all currencies would remain the same in relation to one another...