Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
...able Defense Minister Duncan Sandys, 49, went off on a personal fact-finding tour to determine what should be done. After the failure of last fall's invasion of Egypt, he concluded, Britain no longer has a specific individual role to play in the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean (Friend Iraq would be defended by the Baghdad Pact as a whole). "The emphasis has shifted south of the Suez Canal to the Arabian peninsula area," declared Sandys. The oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdoms, including Kuwait, remain Britain's special concern and might have to be defended by Britain...
Polio is on the rise in the tropics and in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe. Specialists gave two explanations. The World Health Organization's Dr. Anthony M.M. Payne argued that the increase is apparent, not real, and the result of better diagnosis. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk offered the second explanation. "This is a disease of civilization." he said. "As countries adopt higher standards of public hygiene and sanitation, and infant mortality decreases, you get a greater number of children with no natural immunity against the disease." This probably explained recent polio flare-ups in parts of southern Europe...
...Allies enthusiastically enforced this policy of dismemberment. They imprisoned 13 of Farben's top 23 executives as war criminals, stripped Farben of $1 billion worth of its assets and of its 30,000 patents. The Russians and Poles swallowed the three-fifths of Farben that lay in eastern Germany, including its biggest single chemical works and its largest synthetic-rubber plant. Farben plants in the Western occupation zones were divided into 44 separate companies...
...EASTERN AIR LINES will get first nonstop U.S. flag route from New York and Washington to Mexico City, worth $21 million yearly in ticket sales. CAB will take unusual step of revoking its examiner's suggestion that route go to Pan American World Airways...