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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow en route to Peking. Heading the pack was former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, accompanied by Nye Bevan, Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips, Labor Chairman Wilfred Burke, onetime Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill and Trade Union Leaders Harry Earnshaw, Sam Watson and Harry Franklin. Moscow's richest and reddest carpets were rolled out. A flecon of Russia's finest perfume, "The Spirit of the Red Army," was waiting in her hotel room to greet Dr. Summerskill, the only woman in the party. Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov even went so far as to drive over to the British...
...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...
...dreams come true. He raised more than $10 million just to survey the property to prove that the ore was sufficiently high-grade (50% or more iron content) to be attractive to steelmakers. Here and there, like almonds in a chocolate bar, prospectors found pockets of some of the richest iron ore ever mined in North America. They were able to block out 400 million tons assaying nearly 60% iron...
Died. William Lewis Moody Jr., 89 (no kin to ex-Senator Moody), reckoned one of the U.S.'s ten richest men (estimated total assets: $400 million) of pneumonia; in Galveston, Texas. Gracious, publicity-shy Financier Moody controlled vast tracts of Texas land (including Galveston Island, which flourished for years as the gambling mecca of the Southwest) and such miscellaneous enterprises as the $364 million American National Insurance Co.,33 hotels and tourist courts, two banks, both Galveston newspapers, eleven ranches...
Land & Water. The valley of the Snake has become one of Idaho's richest farm areas; along a 200-mile stretch of the river, business is brisk, and crops (beets, potatoes, alfalfa, produce) grow green. Water made the difference. Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water; since then, the U.S. Reclamation Bureau has built a $25 million complex of dams and canals (repayable from water and power revenue) to irrigate a million acres. Another homesteading project developed when, in 1947, a well digger struck a great underground river...