Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were pressing the step-by-step, inch-by-inch progress toward easement of the Middle East's internal problems. One day Israel got out of Gaza and the Aqaba Gulf positions, and the blue-helmeted soldiers of the U.N. Emergency Force moved in. Another day Syria agreed to start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering on complexities like who pays what Suez Canal tolls to whom, was ready to allow removal...
...possible to bring home the bacon in the Middle East last week, but when the Arab cat tasted the milk of Israeli withdrawal, the process at least got started. The Syrians let the Iraq Petroleum Go. start repairing the pipeline pumping stations which Syrian soldiers blew up during the Suez-Sinai invasion last November. In ten days, by laying temporary pipes around the blasted stations, the oil company plans to begin pumping oil at 44% capacity-enough to replace nearly all of the crude oil that Western Europe has had to buy from the U.S. since the Suez landings...
Outside the Iron Curtain, Italy has more state-run businesses than any other European country. When Italy became a nation 96 years ago, her government inherited a Genoese shipyard from the old kingdom of Sardinia, and that was the state's start in business. Under 21 years of Fascism, the government got more and more deeply mixed up in the economy, and has never since got out of it. Today the government mines all of Italy's coal and 80% of her iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron...
Under the awesome monicker of Seventeenth Annual Invitation Individual Championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, the Easterns, as they are known to the less pedantic, slid away to a gentle start last night...
State Department press officer Lincoln White disclosed at a news conference that consultation on resuming aid to Israel would start shortly. He said he expected the aid would be resumed after these consultations got under...