Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Younis has bought new equipment, trimmed the canal banks with the help of 30,000 fellaheen digging by hand, and dredged the canal to the old maximum depth of 35 feet. The workmen, pilots and supervisory staff are paid from booming revenues. Younis says the authority took in about $110 million last year, and paid $15 million into Nasser's treasury as profit. His hastily recruited 220 pilots, replacing those who walked off in a body one day, include six Americans, 21 West Germans, 40 from Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement...
...revolution in neighboring Iraq that swept King Feisal to his death last summer and touched off sweeping land reform appears to have strengthened the Shah's reforming hand in Iran. Last week, though the landlords of Iran are as numerous and as niggardly as ever in the national parliament and ministries, the Shah boldly cut off one of their most cherished privileges. Through the years, on top of their usual fat share of their tenants' crops, landlords have been accustomed to take "gifts" from their peasants of "cattle, lambs, chickens, eggs, marriage dues, fines for quarreling, and presents...
...Along the receding frontiers, the war and postwar years were a time of giant strides and the expenditure of staggering sums for new aluminum plants, paper and pulp mills, bridges and roads. One of B.C.'s fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling rights...
...served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Once in 1911 he tried his hand at composition-a simple air entitled Melody in A Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher for $100. Wrote Banker Dawes in his diary: "I know . . . my punster friends will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones...
There are two phases of man's navigation of space: the going out and the coming back. The Air Force's Pioneer demonstrated that the day is near at hand when a missile will soar out into free space. Last week North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out its X-15 - a stub-winged, hard-shelled rocket.plane designed to study the other end of the problem: how to get a man back safely from outer space...