Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of Tito's toast is that West Germany has never abandoned its claims to the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, which were given to Poland at the end of World War II to compensate Poland for the slice of its eastern lands (68,667 sq. mi.) grabbed by Russia. Whenever Russia wants to curry favor with Poland, it rakes up memories of Poland's hard occupation by the Germans and reminds the Poles that Germany still hopes to get its old lands back...
...World War II): two are in the air force, a third is reportedly a wild-living, peg-trousered boidevardier in Gorky Street's "jet set." Mikoyan's brother Artem, an air force general, is famous in his own right as co-designer of the MIG -the "MI" stands for Mikoyan, the "G" for Co-Designer Gurevich...
...fifty-fifty profit split that Middle Eastern governments give foreign prospectors. To Italy's state-run ENI and its ambitious boss. Enrico Mattei, Iran granted twelve-year drilling concessions for a strip on the Gulf of Oman, a submerged area off Abadan, and a promising 6,800-sq.-mi. area south of the fabulous Qum find (TIME, May 6). But to Iran ENI gave up to 75% of the profits from any oil find it may make...
...Compared with 8,346,137 pop. for London's 693 sq. mi., 7,771,509 for New York's 319 sq. mi. Greater Tokyo (which includes the sprawling port of Yokohama) is also much more heavily populated (approximately 20 million) than either the New York metropolitan area (15.5 million) or Greater London (10 million...
...Service President W. Alton Jones announced record first-half profits of $36,315,490, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Dhofar-Cities Service Petroleum Corp., announced a second oil strike in the district of Dhofar in the sultanate of Muscat and Oman.* The two wells, on a 32,000-sq.-mi. concession held by Dhofar-Cities Service in partnership with Richfield Oil Corp., may mark the beginning of a major new Middle Eastern field...