Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles publicly avowed in his press conference that the U.S. was not playing solo. The disarmament discussions, he said, are not "just between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And we are not going to throw into the discard the views of our allies merely in the interest of making progress on a bilateral basis with the Soviet Union...
...forced a delay. The extra time not only allowed him to win back some doubting Republicans but stretched the Southern arguments too thin. Virginia's Smith could only send in additional orators to rehash the same old points. The atmosphere in the air-conditioned chamber gradually changed from interest to boredom to sweltering bitterness...
...heyday of foreign bond speculations in the '20s, Latin American governments floated ever larger issues at interest as high as 8% on the U.S. market, and many banks turned to cajolery and a few even to bribes to handle the business. With the Depression, Latin countries defaulted to the tune of $1.3 billion. Last week the dance of the millions came to a slow-beat and reasonably happy...
...Around. As a result of the decision, businessmen could descry trouble ahead for dozens of big and little U.S. companies. Sears, Roebuck & Co. owns big blocks of stock in such suppliers as Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., Florence Stove Co., and Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.; Gulf Oil has a 12% interest in Texas Gulf Sulphur, which supplies Gulf with sulphur; Olin Mathieson Chemical has 25.8% of Marquardt Aircraft and 50% of rocketmaker Reaction Motors, for which it is helping develop rocket fuel. And by successfully going back 30 years to trip Du Pont, trustbusters had won the right to try any company...
...motorcade that resembled a Roman triumph crossed with a Mack Sennett chase, the sultan followed his soldiers. Reporter James Morris, then with the London Times, was at his side. Morris camps his story at the oases of human interest, from Mohammed's legendary prayer ("Honor your aunt, the palm, which was made of the same clay as Adam") to vignettes of Arabs setting their watches by the sun and "sweetening" their beards with incense. There is still only one God and that is Allah, but oil is profit, and Author Morris is happy that he saw Muscat and Oman...