Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ultimate purpose: to connect the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by a trans-Abyssinian railway tapping much fertile country which might thus be brought under Italian dominance. fEventual design: to construct certain dams and waterworks among the Abyssinian headwaters of the Nile with intent to foster cotton growing in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The British dams would inundate numerous shrines held sacred by certain Abyssinian religious cults...
...decades Spanish artillery officers have been organized in juntas (literally, "committees"; actually, glorified military trade unions); and during the World War Spanish infantry and cavalry officers similarly organized themselves. The effect has been to develop loyalty to the junta at the expense of obedience to the state, to foster intrigue among the various generals who respectively head these military cliques...
General surprise was expressed that Turkey accepted so small an oil sop. In British-mandated Irak, the exploitation of oil is expected to gladden British babbitts, while British churchmen tenderly foster the local Christians-numbering 79,000 odd, engulfed by 87,000 Jews and 2,500,000 Moslems...
...coal subsidy to follow an agreement between the miners and owners. In the Commons, former Labor Premier Macdonald scathingly asked whether this offer had been intended as a bribe. Even this jibe did not deter Premier Baldwin from renewing his offer, this time without limit, in an effort to foster conciliation...
Married. Fred W. Fitch, 56, rich hair-tonic tycoon, onetime barber, to Gertrude Westberg, 38, his foster daughter and onetime chief hair-tonic bottler, at Des Moines...