Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Dulles, who as a chief legal architect of the U.N. Charter has all its provisions neatly cross-indexed in his mind, spotted a way around the yes-no dilemma. Under the charter, Dulles pointed out, Khrushchev could sit in the U.N. Security Council if he wanted to. Around that point, Dulles and the President shaped Eisenhower's reply to Khrushchev...
...Soviet Union "seriously believes that there is an imminent threat to world peace," it said, "it is bound by the United Nations Charter to take the matter to the Security Council . . . Under the Charter, members of government, including heads of government and foreign ministers, may represent a member nation at the Security Council. If such a meeting were generally desired, the U.S. would join in following that orderly procedure...
...steadiest thing about the Middle East last week was the oil flow. Aside from a moderate jump in tanker charter rates and a flurry of ship sales which in three weeks boosted prices 10-20%, all was calm. Iraq's revolutionary government took pains to assure Western oilmen that it would honor all contracts, would not only maintain oil production but try to increase it. The British-French-American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. welcomed this feeling of sweet reasonableness, but in common with oilmen everywhere took it with a pinch of salt...
Northfield Mills. This mill, with 170 to 200 employees, in Northfield, Vt. (pop. 2,262), is owned by Goldfine but bossed by long distance by Goldfine Secretary Mildred Paperman. In November 1950 the Vermont secretary of state dissolved Northfield's charter because the company had refused to file an annual report. Northfield was reincorporated...
...woman has slipped into the uneasy circle of England's Angry Young Men. No charter member of that club-not even Osborne or Amis-can have much to teach Author Doris Lessing about her craft. Moreover, her anger is never clothed in whining self-pity or adolescent sneers. Born in Persia, raised in South Africa and now a Londoner, Doris Lessing finds life less than perfect wherever she finds herself. The short stories in The Habit of Loving pick up her quarry in places as varied as France, South Africa, England, Bavaria. As might be expected, the title...