Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over the road monthly, plus some 600 barges through the Mittelland Canal, and a dozen freight cars daily by rail...
...comprised Cypriot life for the past years was the product of several conflicting 'interests, and not all these interest have been reconciled. The British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval of the scheme seems assured...
...sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international civil servant from Georgia who also helped the Suez Canal Co. settle with Nasser last spring...
Tied to a balloon or bobbing down a canal in a bottle, the little magazine slips each month into Communist East Germany from the Western zone of Berlin. The cover of the contraband Tarantel (tarantula) proclaims that it is "priceless," but for East Germans caught chuckling over the magazine's sledgehammer humor, the price can be a term in a Red prison. Despite its problems of distribution and retribution, Tarantel is a big success among East Germans. Reason: the butt of humor for Tarantel is East Germany's Communist government...
...calling Victory Day-actually the anniversary of the withdrawal of the unbeaten British and French troops from Suez two years ago-has become an Egyptian holiday. Last week it was observed with massed schoolboy gymnastics and by the symbolic refloating of one of the ships sunk to block the canal. It was also marked by a speech from a somewhat subdued Nasser, who for the first time attacked the Communists. His oratory hardly matched the invective he has expended on the West, but it was a start...