Word: fam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reforms get under way, Spain hopes to get a temporary summer fillip from the tourist trade (about $100 million a year). But for the long haul, Spain looks for U.S. aid to put the country on its feet. Since 1954, stopgap U.S. food shipments at times prevented near fam ine, and $460 million in U.S. aid virtually kept the country solvent. Last week Span ish newspapers were blasting the U.S. for doling out less than the $200 million a year that Spain insists it needs. Actually, Spain will get very close to that amount: about $150 million a year...
Death Was There. Inslerman, recalling his horror upon reading the letter, said: "Death was mentioned there. Bob was afraid of his life and the lives of his fam ily." When he delivered it to Jake, Inslerman testified, he asked some questions about it. Dissatisfied with the answers, Inslerman broke with Communism, but he waited 15 years to tell about...
That he's fed to the teeth with his whole fam damily...
...impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case: the estate is now public property, not subject to inheritance rules...
...able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds...