Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investment, Jack & Heintz, Inc., piled up wartime profits of $6 million (after taxes) by making high-quality plane parts for the Army & Navy. It also piled up heaps of news clips by jubilantly giving "associates" (i.e., employes) huge bonuses, free lunches, soft music, Turkish baths, Florida vacations. But the end of the war and the dry-up of the U.S. Government's golden flood was almost the end of Jahco...
Meanwhile, Red Army tanks and planes were a mere 20 miles from Teheran, at Karaj. Armored columns were said to be moving west by night towards Lake Urmia, near the Turkish and Iraq frontiers. But the British (who garrison Iraq) and the Turks (who are fully mobilized) stayed cannily silent. Both were old hands at playing the nerves game...
Acolytes Molotov and Truman opened the ceremony with becoming simplicity. In Moscow the Soviet Foreign Minister said flatly that he had demanded the return of the Turkish provinces, Kars and Ardahan, back at the Potsdam meeting of the Big Three. At the White House Mr. Truman said he didn't remember any mention of the subject. Then the high priest of diplomatic confusion took over...
Secretary of State Jimmie Byrnes told his press conference that the disputed Turkish territory had been mentioned at Potsdam. There are no waterways anywhere near Kars or Ardahan, but these mountain districts had somehow found their way into a discussion of European waterways. Whether Russia had wanted them back or not, Secretary Byrnes couldn't say for sure. Neither could he remember whether Truman, Attlee or Stalin had happened to be around at the time. That would be nice recollecting, implied Jimmie, but he wasn't that good...
...Georgian and Armenian population is under 2%. The Kremlin had larger considerations. On the whole vast sweep of Russia's western and southwestern border, Turkey is the one country without a pro-Soviet regime. Russia wants to anchor the line. If its pressure could bring a Moscow-influenced Turkish government, Russia might forget her claim to the coastal region...