Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exhibits of Despotism. As for the vaunted Russian aid, Dulles pointed out that the Russian figures are misleading, since the Russians count trade in their totals, e.g., the money they pay Egypt for its cotton and Syria for its wheat. On that basis, U.S. aid to pact member countries alone amounted to $2.2 billion last year, and to about $10 billion over a five-year period. This could be compared with the $300 million Russia claims to be giving Syria over the next five years. Furthermore, said Dulles, the Russians have concentrated their aid in areas that have special strategic...
...rhymes roughly with trend-in-dress) had never administered anything but the family farm near the southwestern Turkish town of Aydin, where he was born in 1899-he does not remember the month or day. He was orphaned soon after birth, thereby fell heir to 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat land watered by the river known to the Turks as the Menderes and to the ancient Greeks as the Meander. (It was affection for his birthplace that led the dynamic Adnan to choose so undescriptive a surname when in 1934 the late great Kemal Ataturk, father of modern...
...when good weather gave it the biggest wheat crop in history -8,200,000 tons v. 3,800,000 in 1950-Turkey became for the first time a substantial exporter of wheat. The once arid Anatolian plateau was dotted with green fields and bustling communities, and the cotton-producing areas of southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish peasant, with money in his pocket, had taken to using sugar for sweetening instead of honey or homemade fruit...
...major crop is cotton. But the Sudan also produces nine-tenths of the world's supply of gum arabic, is going ahead on its own with a well-thought-out plan (originated by Britain after World War I) for developing the Gezira region, a 5,000,000-acre triangle of potentially rich flatland between the Blue and White Niles...
...last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers talk an anticolonial line that often slips over into outright anti-Westernism. El Azhari's main strength is in the cities in the north, while Khalil's speeches for water, cash and cotton go over well in the countryside...