Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Concerning your April 22 article on the naming of Ford Motor Co.'s new dream car, no mention was made of its specifications or design. However, if Ford is holding true to Detroit's trend of recent years, no one need have a "quiverful of literary prizes" to realize that a more fitting name for Edsel would be "S.S. United States...
...when Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies sanctioned a shipment of scrap to Japan, shocked Australians nicknamed him "Pig Iron Bob." When war came, a fever of Jap hatred swept Australia, and lingered on for a decade. As Menzies said: "You only have to mention the word Japanese for it to be worth three headlines." Last week Menzies was making three headlines and more, after a trip to Japan...
...week flew home to Tokyo with visions of such sugarplums as increased trade and a nonaggression pact between the two countries. "Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai met us, warmly shook our hands and patted our backs," glowed one delegate. "The results obtained are just too numerous to mention." Not so starry-eyed was Tokyo's daily Yomiuri Shimbun, which called Mao's proffered sweetmeats "cakes drawn on a piece of paper. Nobody can taste them...
Last week a brief announcement from Budapest reported that Mihaly Farkas, contemptuously identified only as "an inhabitant of Budapest," had been sentenced to 16 years in jail for "serious violations of law during his term of office." No mention was made of his son Vladimir, but there are secret trials to come...
What Senator O'Mahoney did not mention was that Aramco's 1950 tax arrangement with Saudi Arabia was later approved by the U.S. Treasury Department, bossed by Dwight Eisenhower's friend, George Magoffin Humphrey. Regardless of the merits of the arrangement, the department evidently felt that it was in the best interests of the U.S. to have Aramco sitting on one of the world's most strategic-oil areas-even if it meant sacrificing some revenue...