Word: rewards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After this performance, the West German government did an about-face. Gerhard Schröder, Adenauer's Minister of Interior, an ex-Nazi who is John's old boss, had stoutly defended him and offered $119,000 reward for information about John's "abduction." Now he flatly called him a traitor. Schröder also did his best to free the Adenauer government of any blame: the British, he said, had forced John's appointment as West Germany's security chief after rejecting...
...McCarthy had insulted an old associate of the President's, and Ike was angry and dismayed (see below). General George Marshall. said Ike, "to me has typified all that we call-that we look for-in what we call an American patriot ... I think it is a sorry reward, at the end of at least 50 years of service to this country, to say that he is not a loyal, fine American, and that he served only in order to advance his own personal ambitions...
...seemed to be a victory for everybody. Iran regained its main source of revenue; Britain salvaged a handsome reward from what once seemed a total loss; the U.S. found itself participating for the first time in one of the world's richest oilfields. More than that, a strategic chunk of the globe's surface was made safer from Communist penetration. Last week, in the cool garden of Elah-yeh Palace outside Teheran, Iran's Finance Minister and a U.S. oil negotiator put their initials on a settlement of the vexed Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. A formula...
...together took skilled diplomacy. Iran's young Shah and his strongman Premier, General Fazlollah Zahedi, had to operate in an ugly, xenophobic climate created by demagogues and Communists. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (owned 53% by the British government) was unwilling to assent to any agreement that seemed to reward illegal seizure, for fear of the effect it would have on other Middle East rulers...
Britain's Reward. But in fact, Britain will get a lavish return for its lost oil investment. The real compensation to Anglo-Iranian will be borne by the other seven oil firms joining the consortium. For the privilege of a share in exploitation of Iranian oil, the seven (including America's Jersey Standard, Gulf, Texas, Socony Vacuum and Standard of California) will pay Anglo-Iranian about $600 million. In addition to this compensation, Anglo-Iranian, with a 40% interest in the new consortium, will still be the dominant oil operator in Iran. So Anglo-Iranian has cause...