Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past ten years, the West has poured $3.8 billion in public and private investments into the Middle East-the largest single chunk of cash the region had ever seen.* What has it bought for the area...
...Very little general benefit," concludes Hedley V. Cooke, a veteran of the U.S. consular service in Turkey and Palestine, writing in the current Middle Eastern A/fairs. "Large foreign investments have not yet stimulated any cooperative economic planning for the good of the entire region...
...result of the slowing of time: light that originates in a slow-time region appears, when observed on the earth, to have slightly longer waves than local light. Motion away from the earth has the same effect, so the speed of the body from which the light is coming must be known accurately...
...Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago, to freight chief for the entire system. For the job he did heading up the Pennsy's western region during World War II, he was named operational vice president, then executive vice president. As a Pennsy executive, Symes pressed for diesels, modern passenger cars, and became an outspoken critic of the Interstate Commerce Commission's "too little and too late" policy on fare increases. He is credited with clearing the way for downtown...
Initially, such an agency would include the five nations now meeting, plus Vict-Nam if a settlement is made in Indo-China. The other Common-wealth nations in this region, Australia and New Zealand, have also expressed a strong interest in a mutual security arrangement. In addition, a place might eventually be found for Japan and the Philippines. So constituted, such an organization would be an effective third force in Asia. Much additional strength would come from treaties of aid and mutual defense with the United States. It is important, however, that neither the U.S. nor the Chinese Nationalists...