Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, 21 months after Gamal Abdel Nasser's seizure of the Universal Suez Canal Co., the issue of compensating its owners approached settlement by due process of law and due pressure of power politics. Nasser was feeling the hurt of having $280 million in Egyptian assets frozen in the U.S. and Britain. Under the good offices of the World Bank, whose President Eugene Black himself flew to Cairo at the sticking point last month to press compromise on his friend Nasser, representatives of the old Canal Co. and the Egyptian government got together on a "general" financial agreement...
...million in Egyptian assets blocked in the U.S. after Nasser grabbed the canal. The State Department insisted that the assets had been frozen only against the possibility that U.S. shippers, after paying Suez tolls to Egypt, might later learn that the tolls were legally owed to the old Suez Co...
...Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About Music, then got a reprimand for making anti-Nixon quips and quit in disgust. Last February, after more than a year in four sanitariums, he got a call from KCOP (co-owned by Bing Crosby), was offered a temporary job filling in for ailing Jokester Tom Duggan. Ten days later Levant had a show...
...Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the annual Interfraternity Sing, sponsored by the Interfraternity Council. This is a prime example of the co-operation and brotherhood that is the essence of the fraternity spirit at Brown. We shall first hear from Phi Kappa...
...Office of Civilian Defense Mobilization, in contrast, has been a $63 million sprawling network with some twelve hundred employees and little co-ordination between municipal, state, and national programs. Part of its trouble has been lack of integration with other military branches in the National Security Council. In any case, its past operations have been characterized by unrealistic programs met by public apathy. At the same time its budgets have exceeded necessity, and Congress has slashed them by as much as half. In 1956, for example, the OCDM asked for $35 million to build air-raid shelters which the hydrogen...