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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, and 2) the reluctance stems largely from discontent with high prices. Reuther's wage boosts would tend to push prices upward, making consumers even more reluctant to buy. And for workers who did not share in the new round of raises, the higher prices would mean a decrease in real purchasing power...
...group of nations under attack by any country controlled by international Communism. Said Dulles: "The Baghdad Pact group of countries can be confident that mobile power of great force would, as needed, be brought to bear against any Communist aggressor." By the five pact members, this was taken to mean instant support from Sixth Fleet planes and SAC bombers...
Exterminated Turks. In Ankara, where he had gone to see that Menderes yielded nothing, Dr. Kuchuk was still breathing fire: "To leave the Cyprus Turks at the mercy of the Greek government would only mean their death," he cried. "Whenever a Turkish community has lived under Greek rule, it has been exterminated." When challenged by reporters, Dr. Kuchuk changed "exterminated" to "dispersed." Turkey's newspapers backed him up with flaming headlines, e.g., ISLAND OF CYPRUS IS LIKE SMALL BUDAPEST, and in the Turkish Assembly both government and opposition Deputies stood for three minutes' silence in honor...
...doubt of it. His records show that. As to his uneven riding, the only time he does that is in the stretch. Hartack's always been good, and I think he's improved now over what he was. Some people think he's cocky, but he doesn't mean it the way a lot of people interpret it. He don't believe anybody can beat him doing anything. Whatever he does, he does well?particularly ride horses...
Wallace: You mean beat people are mystics...