Word: mediterraneans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spain $226,000,000, already appropriated by Congress, in military and economic aid. In return, the Spaniards give U.S. armed forces the right to use and develop certain Spanish bases. Their probable locations: air bases near Madrid, Barcelona and Seville; naval facilities at the Atlantic port of Cadiz, the Mediterranean port of Cartagena...
...Every country that has been rehabilitated-Japan with its 80-odd million, India, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, European countries-is increasing its production with facilities acquired by the help of our Government. What is going to become of those goods? [Those countries could not absorb their increased production], so they are going to sell in the world markets at any price that will move those goods . . . That means that American goods will be frozen out of those markets, just as they are being frozen out in South America...
Actor Sir Laurence Olivier and his Actress-Wife Vivien Leigh, after cruising the Mediterranean with Cinemagnate Sir Alexander Korda on his 150-ton yacht Elsewhere, were back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
...market, and, as always, the Paris market was flooded with cheap, tourist-bait concoctions mixed in some 1,200 Parisian "cellars." Tariff barriers and import restrictions have virtually shut off the big Latin American markets. Things were even worse in the quiet town of Grasse, near the Mediterranean, whose 18 distilling plants supply the French perfume industry with most of its flower essences. Grasse was harvesting a bumper crop of 1,320,000 lbs. of jasmine blossoms. This could only cause trouble because: 1) there was already a surplus left over from last year; 2) cut-rate jasmine essences from...
Torydom's other distinguished invalid, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, was convalescing on the Mediterranean from a gall-bladder operation and two follow-up sessions with the surgeons. As evidence of his recuperation, it was officially announced that either Eden or Lord Salisbury would head up the British delegates to the U.N. Sept. 25. But many among his supporters wondered whether Eden could regain the strength necessary for a full-time Foreign Secretary-or Prime Minister...