Word: canals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gulf was an international waterway until proved otherwise had achieved the same result and stirred far less Arab rancor. Israel had its port, was taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres of malarial swamp that lie partly in the neutral zone along the Syrian border. In its six years of construction, Syria had repeatedly complained to the Security Council about the project...
...endeavor that no one in dental pain shall be turned away. We save time between our filling appointments so that we shall always be able to take care of emergencies. We also give high priority to the restorative programs which grow out of an emergency situation, such as root canal treatment after an acute abcess. In this way we handle a great many major dental problems: the urgent ones. James M. Dunning, D.D.S., Director, Dental Health Service...
...private foreign rights, both in highly developed and less developed countries, are known to us all. Among the more recent are the methods applied in nationalizing properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in expropriating the United Fruit Co. properties by Guatemala, and finally in expropriating the Suez Canal." Abs also cited instances of indirect interferences with the rights of private foreign capital. Among them: the withholding of essential raw materials, the refusal of import licenses and excessive taxation...
...Suez Canal Co., which has been a hen without a nest since Egypt nationalized its big ditch, last week voted itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...
...this collection by a brush and ink drawing. Michael Biddle's humorous and highly personal conception of two particularly grotesque individuals, titled simply Cartoon, contrasts strongly with another very direct statment, Tom William's Big City Vignette, or with David Austin's sketch of more glamorous terrain, the Grand Canal of Venice...