Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Okays Suez Plan...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 25--U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold registered Egypt's new declaration on Suez Canal operations as an "international engagement" today...
...Suez Question...
...replace Jordan's $36 million-a-year British subsidy was proving largely a desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan by Syrian army units stationed in Jordan since last fall's Suez invasion. Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower plan aid, the young King publicly denounced Communist influence in the country and set out to purge the Nabulsi Cabinet of its three most blatantly pro-Communist members...
...warnings of inflation, he said: "The answer to an over stretched economy is not to tax it but to relax it." He freed firms doing business abroad from all taxes on their overseas trading operations, removed some unpopular domestic levies, e.g., the 1955 "pots and pans" tax and the "Suez shilling" on gasoline, lowered others and granted graduated income-tax exemptions for children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly engineers, executives, scientists-who earn more than...