Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Macmillan, pale and humorless, rose in the House of Commons last week to put an 'official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide the rights and wrongs. This is not by any means...
With a down payment of 100,000 francs to buy himself a new uniform (weighing 60 Ibs. before being loaded with medals) and a promise of $2,500,000 a year in salary and allowances for himself and his family, aged El Amin played his part to perfection. He was regal and dignified at hand-kissing ceremonies, built fancy palaces and went roaring through town in a royal limousine with a screaming siren (reports have it that El Amin Bey had a foot pedal in the back of his car with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important...
...charging as little as $3.30 a day with three meals. In Athens, an air-conditioned deluxe hotel room with bath and breakfast costs $7. For tourists who seek to savor the Continent's off-the-beaten-path charms, Greek villagers rent out clean rooms, are reluctant to take payment from foreigners. No nation will outshine Greece in tourist-luring music, dance, drama...
...States can do to see Euratom's goal realized, although it remains for the six member nations to overcome the first barrier--ratification. The United States has helped the treaty along, however, by offering one-half of needed reactors (Britain will provide the rest) and technical assistance on a payment or license basis. Euratom deserved this initial gesture on our part--encouragement and aid should follow it to completion...
...Mamma," he would cry out to Grace Sands, "it's Jimmy Davis! Mamma, it's Harmie Smith! Listen to the guitars. Oh, Mamma, if only I could have a guitar, I'd be so happy." Grace Sands went out one day and made a $10 down payment on a $65 guitar. Tommy taught himself to play and sing. He never amounted to more than a $52-a-week hillbilly bawler for a Hollywood TV station-until one magic night last January, when a single hour on a TV network turned him into the U.S. teenagers' latest...