Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assembled in St. Joseph's for a patriotic thanksgiving service were Iraqi prelates of the Chaldean, Syrian, Armenian and Greek Catholic churches in dazzling crimson, black and gold vestments. The crowded congregation was almost equally divided between Christians and Moslems; there was even one rabbi. In the Middle East, tense home of three great religions that command the faith of 1.3 billion people around the world, it was a rare moment. After listening to hymns, Kassem rose and said: "Brothers ... I call on each of you, of all communities and sects composing this noble Iraqi people, to lay aside...
...stir and bustle touched the North's civilians too. A record number of government teams explored the geology of the northern islands, world's biggest archipelago after the East Indies. In the Northwest Territories, construction crews hammered together prefabricated parts for new schools and hospitals; and in the Yukon and along the Mackenzie River, the biggest prospecting rush since '98 was in full swing, this time with oil as the prize. So many oil-prospecting crews were buzzing about in their helicopters that one oldtimer at Fort Good Hope (N.W.T.) grouched...
OYSTER BLIGHT is creating unsavory stew for oystermen in Delaware Bay and along East Coast. Bills pending in Congress would allow Government loans to oystermen at 3% interest until Interior Department can stem disease that will further shorten supply and increase prices...
...steel strike has forced layoffs of 50,000 railroadmen (carloadings ran 16% below normal) and 28,000 other workers -miners from West Virginia to Minnesota, sailors and longshoremen on the Great Lakes, teamsters throughout the East and Middle West. The Government is also a victim: a prolonged strike in steel is expected to cause revenue losses of $45 million a week. Said Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson: "A long strike could reduce revenues which could not be recovered in fiscal 1960 and could therefore contribute to a budget deficit...
...electric generators had to be rebuilt at the factory because of "faulty cores." Canned goods, sometimes turned out by several different communes to make up a single order, varied widely in quality, were often bad. After eating a shipment of canned foods from their Chinese comrades, nearly 4,000 East Germans became ill, and some died...