Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and...
Last week it was plain that the headlines were wrong and Hollister was right. A significant new policy has been worked out by the U.S. to back the promotion of free enterprise with dollars. Whereas previous foreign-aid bills only paid lip service to free enterprise, the latest foreign-aid...
He showed off some of his particular treasures. "That's a beautiful piece," he noted of the massive and elaborately sculpted oriental chair. "Genuine teakwood; you know how valuable that is. And that ship," he said pointing to a finely carved model hanging from the ceiling, "that's a model...
The only other incident near the school came when a Negro delivery boy had the tires of his bicycle slashed by adolescent hoodlums. A group of photographers who recorded the vandalism collected twenty dollars to replace the tires.
The warmth was kindled a year ago when President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles pledged that rebellious Poles and Hungarians could henceforth "draw on our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment." Crushed by Russian tanks, the Hungarians were unable to take advantage of the U.S...