Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi, Pakistan...
Today the Oberoi chain sprawls over India, Kashmir and Pakistan, has 1,715 rooms, 4,500 employees, a yearly turnover of 355,000 guests. Profits (before taxes and depreciation) jumped to $1,250,000 last year from $950,000 in 1954. Oberoi believes that the future is even brighter. By 1960 the growing flood of tourists will require another 1,200 rooms in New Delhi alone. In the rest of India, hotel keepers will have to double the number of rooms...
While troublemakers stirred in Baghdad streets, Premier Nuri es-Said met for three days with the leaders of the three other Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact-Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. (The fifth pact member-Britain-was not welcome.) The four pledged strong measures to fight "the rising tide of subversion in the Middle East," and were obviously most alarmed at the threat in Syria...
...throw the 1958 Maine G.O.P. senatorial race wide open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination will probably have to go up against popular Democratic Governor...
...Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Suhrawardy filed vigorous protests with Britain and France. In Dacca, capital of East Pakistan, an angry mob of students set fire to the British Information Office, shouting, "Down with Britain...