Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Greek civil war (1946-49). when Communists burned, looted and terrorized in northern Greece, the Reds kidnaped some 40,000 Greeks and carried them off to the satellite countries. The prisoners are now beginning to come back. The move began as a trickle from Yugoslavia (now Greece's ally), then more came from Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria. By last week the number of refugees repatriated by the Communists had reached...
...regions in a poor country. The repatriates have not enough to eat, and no employment. Under their Communist masters, they were adequately clothed and housed and fed so long as they worked hard and did not rebel. In advanced countries like Czechoslovakia, some had also learned trades which, in northern Greece, they cannot...
...Salonika, regional headquarters for northern Greece, an official threw up his hands at the prospect that the stream of repatriates might steadily grow larger...
...Florida that the mink stoles and silver-fox jackets were not just for show. But while the weather was cold, the betting was hot. Eleven miles as the helicopter flies from Miami's glossy, crowded ocean-front hotels stands spacious Hialeah, overrun by footsore fugitives from crammed Northern tracks. Last week Hialeah presented one of the biggest, CinemaScopiest spectacles to be found on any U.S. race track...
...rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering 44? and up. As supplies grew short, the U.S. Government refused to dip into its low stockpiles, instead banned the export of all domestic refined copper, limited copper...