Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animals to honor the visiting King. He opened the first 16 miles (Baghdad to Al Mahmudiya) of a projected 1,250-mile roadbuilding program; he dedicated a $12 million, 25,000-spindle textile plant at Mosul, Iraq's second city, which under the program was also receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre plots of land to 20 landless fellahin. The land transfer was particularly symbolic...
Last year in Iraq, A.D.L. acted as ICA's agent in drawing up an exhaustive blueprint for industrialization. Iraq is now reclaiming sulphur from abundant natural gas, making paper from reeds, building a date-sugar plant to use its huge date surplus. A gas pipeline is being laid; new plants to make rayon, fertilizer and steel are rising; the nation's industrial bank is being reorganized...
...Filed by Errol Flynn, Doris Duke, Father Divine, and Sugar Ray Robinson's manager, George Gainford...
CUBAN-SOVIET SUGAR DEAL will clean out last of island's surplus this year, may stiffen world prices. Cuba is selling 200,000 long tons of raw sugar to U.S.S.R. at 5.85? a lb., or about ¼ cent higher than U.S. buyers are paying for Cuban crop. Total price: $26 million...
...healthy-looking horde of refugee Korean children. In fact the picture is so ineffably high-minded that the heroine (Anna Kashfi) never finds herself in anything more exciting than the hero's alms. He sends her candy bars too. By the time the lights finally go up, the sugar count of this picture is so dangerously high that theater managers might be well advised to offer insulin shots in the lobby...