Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the four years of his nation's independence, earnest King Mohammed V has tried to find politicians who will govern Morocco to suit him. The first government he installed collapsed because the main political party, Istiqlal (Independence ), thought the Premier was too pro-French. Since December 1958, Premier Abdallah Ibrahim, 41, has governed at the head of an uneasy coalition whose backbone was the leftist Union Nationale des Forces Popnlaires. He devalued the Moroccan franc, obtained U.S. agreement to the evacuation of air and naval bases by 1963, talked of sweeping economic reforms and nibbled away...
...postwar days of nationalistic upheaval. When Indonesia took out after the Dutch, the Group replaced its Dutchmen on the scene with British and Indonesians. When the British were unpopular in Egypt after Suez. Shell replaced them with Dutch. The British were sent - together with other nationalities - into Tunis, Morocco and Algeria to replace unpopular French employees...
...after we say goodbye to each other, we go back to our offices and scrap like hell." At a time when profit margins are dwindling, one favorite way of hitting a competitor is to make it as expensive as possible for him to move into a new market. In Morocco, an old Shell market that Jersey Standard raided after the war, the Group applied all its efforts to bidding up the price of service station sites to discourage Standard...
...their separate ways for the most part . . . They do meet regularly for the breakfast show . . . in which the commercials sometimes provide the only note of harmony." (Replies Dorothy: "How ridiculous. Why, Dick and I were at the Colony and the Copa last night, and we were at El Morocco two nights...
...upper-income tourists who must "justify" their U.S. trip as business because of currency restrictions, though such restraints are being eased in many parts of the world, notably prospering Europe. Nearly all want to see the Grand Canyon, a U.S. supermarket and Disneyland. After King Mohammed V of Morocco paid an official visit to Disneyland, he returned later in civilian clothes, paid his own way to see it all again...