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...months after he took power promising his people "comfort and ease," the great nationalist departed, leaving his country richer in pride and poorer in power and pocketbook. He had cut off Iran's nose to spite its face. Deprived of $100 million a year in direct and indirect revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., unable to sell its oil abroad, Iran's treasury was running into the red at a $10 million-a-month clip. Mossadegh's policies were bankrupt, and Iran was nearly...
...cases his conscience, helps to create well-being and security throughout the community, thus interesting the entire community in preservation of order and obviating the necessity of hiring a vast army of guards to protect his own pile. In both cases, the giver inevitably exercises a great deal of indirect influence, but when he tries overt dictation he provokes anguished cries from the beneficiaries...
...even write-for him. "Winchell's 'gossip' ... is primarily the edited product of diligent, harassed press-agents who give him first choice on all evil that they see, hear or overhear-and some of the good, if it involves their own clients . . . The dividends are indirect; they collect proportionately from their clients for the touch of immortality that goes with the expression: 'He's close to Winchell.'" And, added the Post, they live in unholy terror that they will lose that touch...
...they wanted. From now on, the Bank of England intends to shut her purse by 1) refusing to cash the bills before maturity, or 2) cashing them at a higher discount rate. In short, the new Tory government, recognizing the failure of direct controls, is finally putting to work indirect credit controls to strike at the real source of the inflation-the oversupply of money...
...Crimson put the pressure on Brown throughout the whole game, keeping the ball in the Bruins' rent of the time Twice good scoring opportunities were muffed once on a dropped ball in front of the goal and again on an indirect kick in the first half, called when the Brown goalie took too many steps before kicking...