Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuaded the Barbary pirates to lay off U.S. merchant shipping and signed the Sultan of Morocco to a treaty of friendship. When the treaty ran out in 1836, President Andy Jackson got it renewed indefinitely. Since then, Americans visiting or living in Morocco have had extraterritorial rights, freedom from import controls and certain taxes (although all other countries had given up these rights...
...Morocco, prompted by France, set up some import controls. This was a blow to the small but prospering U.S. business colony in Morocco, made up mostly of ex-G.I.s who had come in on LCIs during World War II and stayed on to make comfortable, Cadillac-powered livings for themselves. The Americans protested to Washington, and Washington protested to Paris...
...Purpose. He turned to the kind of shrewd analysis of Communist forces which the U.S. seldom hears from its officials. The Russians, he said, have not yet attained a position from which they can accomplish the most important of their objectives, "economic containment and gradual strangulation of America . . . They know that our productive power, our economic strength is acutely dependent upon vast quantities of critical materials that we import from other sections of the globe. Their method, therefore, is to infiltrate those areas, to seize them, control them and so deny us those materials that we so badly need...
...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...never signed an international copyright agreement, anybody who has a Russian score can legally play it or record it without paying royalties. But Leeds thought it saw a way to plug that leak in the commercial dikes. It sent a man to Moscow and obtained an "exclusive" contract to import Russian master tape recordings. Now, says the publisher, any unauthorized record release in this country will be a violation of its property rights. A fortnight ago, Leeds sent stern notes to U.S. record manufacturers: before releasing Soviet performances, they would have to sign up (and pay up) or face lawsuits...