Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ On the launching pads are T-3 ICBMs, with a range of more than 5,000 miles, and the T-2 and T-4 IRBMs, with ranges of 1,600 and 1,000 miles respectively. If Soviet missile doctrine is similar to the West's, each base has...
"I shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of...
In 1952 Toledo's Jeep-making Willys Motors surveyed the Brazilian market and with its distributors in Brazil organized Willys-Overland do Brasil, capitalized at $250,000, more than 50% from the U.S. mother firm, the rest from Brazilians. Now Willys do Brasil is South America's biggest...
In Mexico the joint venture accounts for 11% of the total $544 million U.S. investment in Mexico since 1950, includes many mergings of U.S. private capital with Mexican government funds. The Mexican government and the Celanese Corp. of America formed the jointly owned Celanese Mexicana, now grown 16 times into...
Chosen by political insiders, the President of Mexico is a kind of surprise package that the electorate gets to know well only after he takes office. Last week, as Mexico City's avidly progovernment press marked the first anniversary in office of Adolfo LÓpez Mateos with editorials...