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Even with the Wien N.C.A. merger, Alaska still has eight C.A.B. regulated airlines. This will soon change. Already merged are Cordova with Alaska Airlines, which now plans to take over small Alaska Coastal Airlines. Seeing this trend toward bigness among the competition, Chairman Petersen and President Sigurd Wien, the only family member still active, are seeking to expand the new line's routes to nearby Siberia and faraway Chicago...
...stirrup (giving lancers leverage), Arabs swept east to India and west to France, subjugating Persia, Egypt and Spain. Within 100 years, they won an empire bigger than the one the Romans had built up in 600 years, and they commanded the world's trade routes from Canton to Cordova...
...conquered territory, Arab rulers hewed to the Koran and tended to let the conquered govern themselves. Mohammed designated no successor (caliph); his squabbling heirs split Islam into rival sects. For a time, independent Moslem states retained Mohammed's vigor. While Europe slept, great Arab universities flourished in Cordova, Baghdad and Cairo; in Spain, the Arab philosopher Averroes revitalized Aristotle. After the death of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 809, the Baghdad caliphate plunged into civil war; in succeeding centuries, marauding Mongols poured into the Arab lands, killing people and wrecking schools. In two centuries, ending in 1291, Arabs...
...still possible for one man to aspire to master all knowledge, and he was equally famed as philosopher, physician, and interpreter of the Jewish Law. Of him it was said: "From Moses to Moses there is none like unto Moses." He was born in the Spanish city of Cordova, but Moslem persecution drove his family to Morocco, Palestine, and finally to Egypt, where the Sultan Sal ad in provided refuge for Jews who were persecuted by other Islamic regimes...
Under the terms of the accord, the U.S. will give Mexico 630 acres of U.S. territory, and will receive in turn a desolate 193-acre chunk of Cordova Island, a Mexico-owned enclave on the El Paso side of the river. As soon as the U.S. and Mexican Senates ratify the agreement-probably late this year-the U.S. will make plans to reimburse Chamizal property owners and relocate the area's 3,750 residents. Railroads that run through El Chamizal will be rerouted farther north. The U.S. and Mexico will then split the expenses of building six new bridges...