Word: misr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miffed. U.S. plane manufacturers were hopping mad at a report that Britain was frowning on a sale of five Douglas DC-25 to the Misr (Egyptian) Airlines. Airmen heard that Britain's Minister for Civil Aviation, the Rt. Hon. Viscount Swinton, had warned the Egyptians that their blocked sterling account in London could not be tapped for U.S. airplanes...