Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Ike agreed with the State Department that the span between Oct. 12, when the Geneva conference starts up again, and Oct. 31, when the U.S. test-suspension period was supposed to end, would not give the conference enough time to make any progress no matter what the outcome of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks...
From the Colombo Plan (British-and Commonwealth-backed, though Burma as a matter of fact has quit the Commonwealth...
...Batista supporter, would not be assassinated when his plane landed in Fidel Castro's Cuba. To the delight of Brazilians, who regard avoiding taxes as a kind of fifth freedom, Ultima Horn reported that the only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called the waiting Hallisey a mercenary hounding...
...forcing rates up even higher. Such a development during the next year would put Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson in the worst position of any Treasury Secretary since the 1920s in maintaining a market for Government securities. The committee's action, said Anderson, "is a matter of grave concern...
...Evans' aggressiveness has paid off. Crane's net income in the first half rose more than 60%, to $2,333,000. Just how much farther Evans will go toward reducing the size of Crane is a matter of wide speculation. His rift with Landa over how to run the company appears healed. If he can overcome the ill will he has generated through the drastic changes in Crane's organization, roughriding Tom Evans may well add Crane to the list of his successes...