Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smartly guided by veteran Diplomat Henderson, the U.S. acted with surprising speed-only 17 days after the anti-Mossadegh coup-and wisely attached no tight strings to its gift. But President Eisenhower's letter did suggest "an early effective use of Iran's rich resources"- a polite way of saying that further aid might depend on Iran's willingness to settle its oil dispute with Britain and get its important resource, the Abadan refineries, back into business. Premier Zahedi seemed to understand. "In the near future," said he, "we should be able to begin to make maximum...
...flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called in the contractor and fined him three times the amount of his claim for nonfulfillment of contract. For the big job of federal district governor, the Presi-'dent picked a veteran Alemánista, but built such a fire under him that the old wheelhorse leaped like an apocalyptic charger against price-gouging movie exhibitors, police-protected brothels and unsightly sidewalk peddlers, then went frantically to work repairing street drains in flood-plagued working-class districts...
...Veterans Administration had some news about the year-old Korean G.I. Bill of Rights. While more than half the 15 million veterans of World War II took advantage of their bill, only about one out of every ten Korean veterans has so far enrolled in schools or courses. One reason for the lack of interest: instead of getting $500 a year for tuition plus a minimum $65 a month for living costs, the unmarried Korean veteran gets a flat $110 a month for all expenses...
Died. Nicolai Berezowsky, 53, prize-winning Russian-born composer (Symphony No. 4 and the children's opera, Babar the Elephant) and veteran guest conductor; of undetermined causes; in Manhattan...
...veteran trader thought the Dow-Jones index was a slowpoke compared to what many individual groups of stocks had already done. Said E. F. Hutton's Gerald M. Loeb: "The bull market really ended quite a while ago as far as the majority of stocks is concerned." He pointed out that gold stocks as a group have never topped their peak of November 1949. The soft drink and brewing group reached its high in January 1950; a year later, copper stocks, retail stores and steels reached theirs. Two years ago the ethical drug stocks reached their top, followed within...