Word: frenchrun
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Squeeze. Nasser was also kept busy fending off the fine web that the British and French have begun to weave around his economy. The most immediately threatening web was that binding key Suez Canal technicians to the old Frenchrun company. After Nasser said yes to Menzies, the French government announced that the company would not pull out its foreign pilots until the talks were over. "But," added a Foreign Ministry spokesman, "we cannot expect them to stay indefinitely...
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