Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After long and careful negotiation by U.S. diplomats, Turkey and Pakistan signed a military collaboration treaty. This was a key step toward Dulles' goal of a "Northern Tier" defense against Soviet expansion...
AIRLINE STORM is raging over the Civil Aeronautics Board's preliminary decision to knock two Alaskan airlines out of their lucrative Stateside business. CAB has decided not to renew temporary permits for routes flown by Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (43,013 passengers in 1953), letting Pan American and Northwest Airlines fly the routes alone. But the move has brought such a howl that CAB may be forced to reconsider...
...lawyers even suggested that Fox does not own the Post because he has not been able to meet the payments on the $4,000,000 he contracted to pay for it two years ago. It was also charged that Fox had an unpaid paper bill with the Great Northern Paper Co. for $800,000, is being sued for $25,000 by a Boston wrecking company, owes three years in back state taxes on the Post, and had issued checks that bounced. In answer, Fox said that he does own the Post, although he is behind in his payments. The Grozier...
...Reds know that between Alaska and Greenland they can penetrate virtually unchallenged over Far Northern Canada (which has no system of defense or detection other than a volunteer observer corps of trappers and Eskimos). They know that southward, along the U.S. flanks, coastal radar can scarcely spot low-flying planes until too late...
They thus bested the Northern city bosses: Tammany Hall's Carmine DeSapio, Chicago's Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...