Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building a steel mill and at least 14 factories, thrust the Soviet Union into Britain's old place at the center of oil-rich Iraq's economic development. The first 80 Soviet technicians, said Iraq's Communist-lining Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba. would arrive within a month...
...government's failure to "prevent the recent substantial and widespread rise in unemployment." With 600,000 jobless in Britain, this seemed a good issue. But Tory Labor Minister Iain Macleod was able to announce a drop in unemployment of 58,-ooo-the biggest decrease in any one month in twelve years. Said he: "The first seven years in opposition are always the most difficult. I cannot help it if every time the Opposition are asked to name their weapons, they pick boomerangs...
King Paul gave him the Medal of Bravery, and Parliament passed a law promoting Colonel Grivas to lieutenant general (only the King is a full general), awarded him full pay of $300 a month for life. Political parties besieged him to join them-but he put them off. First he had to rest, to have three teeth pulled and an injured finger treated...
Back to foggy London after a month of Nassau sun, Elder (70) Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot and his youngish (32) wife (and former secretary) Valerie disembarked from the Queen Mary boat train. "It was glorious there," mused Eliot to a waiting Daily Mailman. "We had the place practically to ourselves. There was some young film star chap. Can't think of his name." Prompted Valerie: "It was Gary Cooper, dear...
...sports ranging from swimming to weight lifting. One rowing group became so incensed by "U.S. imperialist aggression against our territory of Taiwan" that it bettered the winning time of the U.S. pair-oared shell with cox in the 1956 Olympics, even though the Red rowers had trained only a month over the 2,000-meter distance...