Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China. King Saud, whose gold-encrusted china is Rosenthal's biggest order since World War II, had joined an illustrious clientele. Rosenthal has made china for the royal houses of Greece, The Netherlands, Rumania and Iran, for Indian maharajas and Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. In 1952 the company turned out a special order of $8,214.15 worth of crockery for Marshal Tito's wedding. Before Eisenhower left Berlin in 1948, his staff gave him a 130-piece Rosenthal set inscribed with the flaming-sword insignia of SHAEF. Not to be outdone by Western capitalists, Soviet Ambassador Valerian...
Economists insist that, ideally, Israel could make its own way if it took its proper place in its own region, and that its manufactures can find their rightful markets in such undeveloped nearby lands as Ethiopia, Eritrea and in the Arab states themselves. But to find such trade in its own area would require a great change of heart among its hostile neighbors and a great change in its own attitude. Ben-Gurion's victory last week was an indication that Israel does not propose to make such a change itself. This was a victory over his own Cabinet...
...June 14, 1941) warnings of a German attack on Russia were being put out by "the forces arrayed against the Soviet Union and the Great German Reich," Indians were fighting and dying alongside British, Australian, French and other comrades to protect Egypt and the Arab world and to set Ethiopia free. An obscure party employee in those days, [Khrushchev] was probably never allowed to know that Stalin did not even acknowledge Mr. Churchill's repeated warnings of the impending Nazi attack. A devout ignoramus today, he would be the last man to heed the thought that the allies...
...have dammed the Nile in many places, but still it drifts sluggishly for half the year leaving much good land parched, and then spews its silt-laden floodwaters, wasted, into the Mediterranean. Dams upstream in Ethiopia, Uganda and the Sudan are out of Egypt's control and too far to bring electric power...
...Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie...