Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faithful, except slaves, women without companions and those who cannot afford the journey, to make the hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in their lifetime. Last fortnight, as the season of the hajj drew near once again, more hajjis (pilgrims) than ever before-hajjis from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and most of the desert cities and oases of North Africa-followed the Koran's injunction and swarmed into the Lebanese city of Beirut,* the usual way-station on the road to Mecca. Each clutched in the voluminous folds of his ihram (the pilgrim's sheetlike uniform...
...soldier whose name was almost completely unknown in Cairo, London or Washington seven weeks ago-Major General Mohammed Naguib (pronounced Nageeb). He is now acclaimed by his people as a savior, and by Western diplomats as the most promising figure to appear in the Middle East since Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk...
...year ago, before General Thorpe was nominated, the Daily Worker picked up a speech he had made before the Rhode Island Turkey Growers and Poultry Growers Association. The Worker distorted the speech to make it sound as if he were supporting the Communist party line on the Far East. Agents of the Army's Counter-intelligence Corps (which Thorpe himself helped organize in the Pacific) descended on his home town of Westerly, R.I., a small community where gossip spreads fast. The agents questioned Thorpe's neighbors and friends about his loyalty. The agents based the questions...
...Draft periods of other NATO countries: Canada: no draft, volunteers only; Luxembourg and Norway: 12 months; Denmark, France, Italy and Portugal: 18; The Netherlands: 20; Greece, Turkey, the United Kingdom...
...some nations, says the report, the high price results from "inordinately high taxes"; Turkey, for example, slapped a 16? tax on every pound in 1949, pushing the price up to 27?. Elsewhere, the price is kept artificially high by "government monopolies or government-approved cartels." Sugarmen should "estimate the great cost of restricting production as against the infinitesimal cost of taking some positive, dynamic steps to increase consumption...