Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone else by breaking raggedly into the strains of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Cynics muttered that the singers must be Foreign Office men in disguise, but if the visit had not endeared Adenauer and the British to each other, it had at least reduced their mutual distrust. "It is from France and not West Germany," sighed the Guardian, "that Britain is now most seriously divided...
...gracious were the bows, so lavish the assurances of esteem, so charming the exchanges of mutual praise, as Britain's Foreign Secretary arrived in Paris last week that one would think Britain and France were on the best of terms. "There is and must be a special relationship between our two countries," smiled Selwyn Lloyd, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville reciprocated with murmurs of "profound solidarity," as the two sat down for talks in a gilded salon of the Quai d'Orsay. At the Elysée Palace, where Lloyd extended France's President...
...Colombo Plan, with a tiny staff of clerks, is a kind of clearing house for economic relations between 15 "recipient" nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Since the plan was started in Ceylon nine years ago, primarily as a mutual-aid forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been pledged to its member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About...
AUTO-INSURANCE DISCOUNTS of 15% will be given by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on compact cars, topping the 10% discount offered by Allstate. Autos eligible are 1955 and later models priced under $2,300 which do not exceed 3,000 Ibs., 200 in. in length...
...Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Central also owns more than $500 million in Manhattan real estate, including the Park Lane, Commodore, Biltmore and Barclay hotels, plus several blocks of Park Avenue land. Biggest plum of all: Alleghany's 47.8% control of Investors Diversified Services, which manages five mutual funds whose combined assets total about $3 billion. This great Alleghany complex, says Sonnabend, "has been static since Robert Young died. It needs new vitality and dynamism...