Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once, during a Menderes visit to Bonn, West Germany's brilliant Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard cautiously suggested that it might be wiser for Turkey to build only two new cement factories instead of the twelve that Menderes planned. Smiling courteously, Turkey's Premier-who speaks English, French and Greek but no German-replied: "C'est line affaire de notre cuisine inteérieure." Explained an Erhard aide: "In good German, this means, 'That's none of your goddam business...
...bodyguards always keep packed bags at the office, and Turkish Airlines is instructed to hold open at least two seats on every Ankara-Istanbul flight. Along with his energy goes a monumental memory for detail. Says one aide: "He knows things like telephone numbers, how many bags of cement such and such a construction project will require, and how much rainfall there was yesterday all over Turkey...
...Among his first acts was abolition of the rigid import controls that the Republicans had established at the beginning of World War II. The consequence was that the Turks, starved for almost a decade for the products of Western industry, began importing huge quantities of everything from steel and cement to wire recorders and electric razors...
BURMA. A five-year agreement to barter rice for Soviet-bloc cement, signed in July 1955, has proved disillusioning. The cement, for which Burma had only limited use, arrived during the monsoon and hardened on the docks. The Soviets turned around and sold the rice for cash in other Asian countries, thereby depriving Burma of potential export markets. Under another 1955 agreement, Russia is to "give" Burma $28 million worth of building materials and technical help toward construction of a hospital, a technological institute, a hotel, a sports arena and an exhibition hall. The agreement requires Burma, as a token...
...promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber of the goods...