Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forthwith Is Forthwith. Unmoved, the Asian nations, with the harsh assistance of Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, continued to press for passage of a resolution reproaching Egypt's three invaders. As a gracious gesture to the harried British, Krishna Menon came up with a new draft which noted the Anglo-French stalling with "regret" rather than "grave concern." The U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge helpfully assured the British that the word "forthwith" did not imply that all Anglo-French forces must leave Egypt immediately. "If forthwith does not mean forthwith," complained Selwyn Lloyd with understandable petulance, "then...
...soon will the Suez Canal be open again? By last week the first optimistic predictions of three months' work had turned to talk of six months' or more. Once the work is under way, salvage experts hope to clear a shallow channel for ships of 25-ft. draft in a few weeks. Then tankers plying the cape route to Europe from the Persian Gulf could take a short cut through Suez on the empty return trip, cut their time by 25% and costs proportionately...
...iron riches lay virtually untouched until 1950. when a Bethlehem Steel Corp. subsidiary began mining El Pao. The ore traveled by rail to the Orinoco, then by shallow-draft vessel to deep-water Puerto de Hierro (Iron Port). In early 1954, a U.S. Steel Corp. subsidiary, Orinoco Mining Co., sent its first load of Cerro Bolivar ore down the river. Orinoco Mining has spent $230 million on its Cerro Bolivar mine and the installations that go with it: a trim little company town near the base of the mountain; a river port (Puerto Ordaz); 90 miles of railroad...
...camera finds him, Sanders is enthusiastically engaged in selling his own brother to the secret police in return for a passage to America. Arrived in New York, he steals a rich man's wallet from the tramp (Yvonne de Carlo) who stole it first, finds a draft for $20,000 tucked inside. Forging an indorsement, he takes a plunge in the stock market, clears $200,000 in a matter of hours, pays for the bad check with a good one. And so he finds himself, almost before the customs stamps have dried on his luggage, well...
...this [Anglo-French] ultimatum would be justifiable or ... consistent with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter." In the debate that followed, the U.N.'s familiar two-sided world came unstuck. Sobolev eagerly announced that "the Soviet delegation is prepared to vote in favor of the U.S. draft resolution . . ." When the vote came, Britain and France, the two historic allies of the U.S.. vetoed the U.S. proposal. It was Britain's first veto...