Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singh & Co. had succeeded in excluding or scaring off irrepressibly anti-Communist Asians. The Philippines refused to send a delegation, no South Koreans were invited. Two Formosans who asked for admission as observers were turned down, as were two Turkoman refugees from the U.S.S.R. But all the Communist nations of Asia were represented in force. So, too, was the Soviet Union, which had dusted off for the occasion its claim to be as much an Asian as a European power...
...Hatta pointedly underscored what every informed Indonesian knew already: that the country has almost no navy or air force and could not possibly take Netherlands New Guinea forcibly no matter how belligerently Sukarno & Co. may sound off in Djakarta. "Our youth." said Hatta, "should not be asked to swim across the ocean to get West Irian. It is not through war that we will get back West Irian but by peaceful ways and means...
...capitalism and Mexican socialism. Between 1936 and 1938 President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign-held cotton land in the valley, doled it out to Mexican peasants. Too poor to buy seed, fertilizer and equipment, the farmers turned to the Mexican subsidiary of the giant U.S. firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., which branched out from ginning into financing the growers. Since 1939, production has climbed ten times...
Even better, cash registers kept on jingling merrily after Christmas. "Our post-Christmas season started off with a bang," said Rich's department store in Atlanta, which broke all holiday sales records. Reported Dallas A. Harris & Co.: "Crowds on Dec. 26 were just fantastic...
...down 7% from 1957. Autos, aluminum, machinery and many others are planning fewer additions. But utilities, which never caught up in 1957, will have to pile on another $200 million increase to $6.5 billion next year. Many steelmen are also pushing ahead despite lower operating levels. Says Inland Steel Co.'s President Joseph L. Block, who earmarked $280 million for a three-year expansion program: "We plan for continued growth because we believe we are a growth company in a growth industry in a growth country...