Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Two months ago Khrushchev himself told the Soviet people to shape up-discard their familiar padded jackets and baggy pants. Result: on Moscow streets, vivid hats are replacing drab shawls, and more men are wearing fedoras instead of cloth hats. But following fashion is not always easy, complained Izvestia...
WE ASKED FOR EVIDENCE ! cried the London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African...
Only 48 Years. The naming of the commission mollified the House of Commons, but the sedate House of Lords was treated to a speech that nearly unsettled everything again. Up popped 75-year-old Lord Malvern, who as Sir Godfrey Huggins was the first Prime Minister of the Central African...
Coal deposits at El Turbio are estimated at 400 million tons, enough to supply Argentina for two centuries. Frondizi's government coal monopoly has signed a $42 million contract with a French company to triple last year's 250,000-ton output. And prospectors from Argentina's...
The cuts brought a cry from Standard of Indiana that they are "grossly discriminatory." As other importers also stormed over the Administration's move, independent Texas oilmen (who produce more than 40% of the nation's crude output) put on contented smiles. U.S. domestic oil demand is now...