Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years of mismanagement by an increasingly corrupt military dictatorship has brought the Republic of Colombia to the brink of economic chaos. Despite good coffee prices and a bumper crop, Colombia is in debt by over 350 million dollars, more than its entire income from coffee exports for the first...
More than 27,000 refugees have fled from Hungary to Austria, and continue to stream across the frontier at a rate of a thousand a day. While the number of students included among these is still unclear, it is certain that many have forsaken their homes in order to pursue...
Back in Hollywood, the producer discovered that the Paramount lot (35 acres) was not big enough to contain his other big scene: the crossing of the Red Sea. He therefore demolished the intervening buildings, joined Paramount and RKO territory, built a 200,000 cubic-foot swimming pool, installed hydraulic equipment...
Official Isreali sources revealed this morning that their forces had siezed 50 million dollars worth of Russian-made Egyptian arms in four days of fighting.
There are few such signs. Minister Watkinson said that BOAC is "urgently discussing" a long-range jetliner with Britain's own de Havilland. But so far de Havilland's plane is only a blueprint; between planning and production there is many a slip, as the British are painfully...