Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Motor Sales. Even before the Government had settled property claims battalions of snorting earthmovers plunged into the fields. They ripped through swamp gum thickets that had sheltered some of the finest turkey and partridge coverts in the East, churned the rich red clay into a lifeless desert. Huge huts sprang up, weird cylindrical towers rose against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading...
...revenge. The British Foreign Office is ready to go surprisingly far to meet Egypt's "legitimate aspirations." London is prepared to withdraw the 50,000 British troops from the Suez Canal Zone. Condition: Egypt must participate in a Middle Eastern defense pact, jointly sponsored by the U.S., France, Turkey and Britain...
...Fascists of the World Unite!" In 1949, he stumped Hanover as a Neo-Nazi, won a seat in the Bundestag in the first West German election. This entitled him to a listing in the German Who's Who, which accepted his assertion that he was born in Smyrna, Turkey in 1911 (Smyrna's public records were destroyed by fire...
Members. At Lisbon, Greece and Turkey will be voted into NATO, expanding the alliance to 14 countries and stretching its reach from Iceland to the Dardanelles...
...Tsiang's resolution to condemn Russia for having "failed to carry out" the treaty-Tsiang's phrase had been "violated." Besides there were 24 abstainers, including France and Britain. "Academic," ho-hummed Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and likely to "open up old wounds." Greece and Turkey were the only Europeans to vote...