Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haile Selassie. They also feared that the U.S. would naturally side with Saudi Arabia, whose oil concessions are wholly American-but the fact is that U.S. oil money dominates even the areas where British protection prevails: U.S. companies own 50% of the stake in Kuwait, 100% in Bahrein, the Neutral Zones and Dhofar, 23.75% m Muscat and Oman...
Vehemently denying that he was a Red Chinese agent, Singh was careful not to criticize the Chinese Communists ("After all, I was their guest"), talked, instead, of making Nepal the "Switzerland of the Far East," i.e., neutral. He saw that there was no future in Nepalese politics without Indian backing, began insisting that India was Nepal's "best friend," and asked the Nepalese to be "more grateful" for Indian economic aid. He was invited to New Delhi and had a chat with Nehru. Nehru laconically concluded: "Not a Communist-just a freebooter...
...showing a $3,000,000 loss on movie production, the threat of a proxy war was stemmed only by a deal that split Loew's board. At the February meeting Vogel was allowed to choose six directors, the Tomlinson-Meyer group another six, with a neutral member in New York Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid...
...Rides Again? Last week, presumably weary of the boardroom battle, neutral Director Reid resigned his umpire's job. With him went two other directors. General Dynamics' President Frank Pace Jr. and Manhattan Attorney George A. Brownell,* both of whom have voted with President Vogel. Appealing to his stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis...
...soon as Captain Pierre, commander of the Kong-Plong outpost in south Indo-China, saw the handsome, flaxen-haired corporal from Lyon, he felt that he had a solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with...