Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circles around us." In Iran practically all buses running are now Mercedes-Benzes. Two of Baghdad's proud new bridges are German-built, as is the new one across the Nile at Cairo. The products of Bayer's giant Leverkusen works now fill the drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines...
...days later in the African city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation...
...Tramp−smearing nostalgia and responding to each lyric with subtle emotion. It was Frankie's guest crew (Kim Novak, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show, a fluid, funny musical tour with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Rosemary Clooney, which proved that in TV as anywhere else (see CINEMA) there is no substitute...
...rise in that time, now hopes its "hard pound" policy, expressed in courageously raising the discount rate from 5% to 7%, will finally check inflation, permit Britain to build up the gold and dollar reserves it needs to act as banker for the sterling area. In Asia, Japan has creditably held its inflation since 1953 to 9%, and recently the Bank of Japan, the government's central bank, further tightened up on money by raising the discount rate from...
...stated that we must not allow "Nehru's and Krishna Menon's talent for annoyance" to blind us to the importance of India. Commenting that their most "trying statements" were for domestic consumption, he supported a plan of "capital assistance on a loan basis." He further suggested that in Asia generally we "use imports of food to help countries through the agricultural stage by freeing farmers for industrial work...