Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chartered DC-4 flew in from the U.S. with enough anti-cholera vaccine for 200,000 people. Within two days, four more planes arrived, hightailing straight across the Atlantic. The U.N.'s World Health Organization rushed vaccine to nervous countries near Egypt. Planes came from Britain, France, Switzerland, Iraq. China (where cholera is endemic but out of season) sent a million units of vaccine. A Russian plane was expected this week with another million...
...second phase of the operation would involve a fast offensive against the Iberian peninsula and penetration across the Mediterranean into North Africa, at the same time engaging a powerful attack through Persia, Iraq and Syria aiming at the Suez Canal...
...ledger is not in the red; at the request of President Shukri Bey Kuwatly of Syria, Bayard Dodge recently founded a new school in Damascus, and he has promised to build a modern agricultural college in Iraq. En route to Syria last week, as first director of the new Damascus College, was an American with a name known with respect in the Near East. The new director: Howard Huntington ("Hunt") Bliss, 45, grandson of A.U.B.'s founder and brother-in-law of Bayard Dodge...
Amid the protective coloration of Manhattan's midtown hotels, the polyglot parliamentarians became as invisible as so many native New Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
...While Iraq's young Regent Abdul Illah (whose approval is necessary for the death sentences) considered whether or not Communism can be stopped by hanging its leaders, Iraqi Communists showed signs that they were still very much alive. Their secret presses, silent during the trial, got out a pamphlet protesting an "action which Hitler dared not take, and only the Franco regime can equal...