Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maximum range of three miles, the station serves the remote, 15,000-man air base with kinescopes of regular shows (the commercials are eliminated) and with live Air Force talent. Similar TV stations are planned for armed forces stations in such isolated overseas areas as French Morocco, the Azores, Iceland and Saudi Arabia...
...from Germany and Italy constituted "a definite threat of serious injury," and recommended doubling the present 42% tariff. President Eisenhower canceled the increase on the ground that no imminent threat was proved. Among the other cases: ¶Fishermen are aroused by groundfish fillet imports (largely from Norway, Canada and Iceland), up from 9,000,000 Ibs. in 1939 to 107 million last year. ¶ Lead and zinc producers complain of shutdowns and layoffs in U.S. mines because "a flood of imports has demoralized the domestic mining industry." ¶ Makers of woolen gloves and mittens charge that cheap imports (mostly from...
...Orchestra is now awaiting final Air Force confirmation of the tour, which would take the musicians to places like Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and North Africa...
Molotov ducked and wove, argued that the question of Trieste should be settled first. "We did not come here to discuss Iceland, Morocco, Gibraltar or Trieste, we came to discuss Austria," retorted Dulles. Four fruitless hours later, Bidault said: "We have conceded all we were ever asked to concede, and now we are confronted with heart-rending new proposals...
...there were difficulties. One was whether the U.S. should extend to Pakistan its guarantee to defend other peoples' boundaries (by NATO pact, the U.S. has already promised to defend 13 nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...