Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years U.S. advisers had been scolding the Turkish government for trying to expand too far too fast and warning the Turks that they were scaring investors away. Yet last week, as he flew off to a Baghdad Pact meeting in Karachi, tough Premier Adnan Menderes had the look of a man well satisfied with things. As his plane winged eastward, he could look pleasantly down on Anatolia, usually brown, now lushly green. Six weeks of rain had changed the vital wheat crop prospects from poor to good...
...believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said was riding high: months ago he was isolated, the only Arab signer of the pro-Western Baghdad Pact; now his rivals in Syria and Egypt were the ones isolated...
...purchases through Swiss banks had been illegal, suspected that if Silberstein did not get control of Fairbanks, Morse he would have trouble raising the cash to pay for his F-M stock. His calculation proved right. Silberstein began peace talks two weeks ago; last week he signed a pact that was a clear victory for Morse...
Having bowed to Morse in his own company, Silberstein also faced trouble from him in Penn-Texas, where Morse had financed a stockholders' protective committee. At the annual meeting last week in tiny Cresson, Pa. (pop. 2,569), four days before the peace pact was signed, the Penn-Texas stockholders sharply questioned Silberstein's tactics in the Morse fight. They cited the protective committee's report that Penn-Texas stock had dropped from $19.62 to $11.25, that cash dividends dropped from $1.30 in 1955 to 35? in 1956, with none in sight...
...addition, establishing a European buffer zone can herald solutions to some of the outstanding political problems between Russia and the United States. Neutralizing a trial region might lead to a general European security pact including both East and West. Successful negotiations could also promote agreement on troop quotas for the leading Western and Communist nations...