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...arms deal with the Communists, which set Nasser up in business as a man no longer dependent on the West alone. Now, as Foreign Minister, Shepilov was, back to inspect his handiwork. This time he also came bearing gifts, or the offer of gifts. Shepilov hoped to wean Nasser from his bargain with U.S., Britain and the World Bank to finance the High Dam at Aswan...
Facing up to this dire possibility, Fuel Minister Lloyd told an anxious House of Commons that British industry must drastically wean itself from dependence on coal for power. By 1960, said Lloyd, British oil refineries (expanding at breakneck speed) will provide enough fuel oil to replace 25 million tons of coal a year. Thereafter, he added, he is counting on atomic power to drive out "the specter of the coal...
...appeared a civilized but untamed 100-proof corn liquor respectably labeled"White Lightning -Clear as the Mountain Dew" and respectably distilled on order by a subsidiary of the Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. in Louisville. The North Carolina Board of Alcoholic Control had decided that it would stop trying to wean moonshine guzzlers, and would offer them a better product...
...David, who is retiring. Peter, whose father remains board chairman, is the grandson of Pharmacist Charles E. Hires Sr.; who brewed an "herb tea" of roots, bark and herbs, served it hot, and founded the company in 1876. (Later, it was served cold, renamed "root beer" to wean upstate Pennsylvania coal miners away from beer, and became, for a time, the biggest-selling U.S. soft drink.) Young Peter Hires left Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became a salesman, and rose to be general merchandising manager. He expects to boost 1954 sales of nearly $10 million...
...spears, are pinning down a division of British regulars and 28,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, Masai spearmen and Samburu trackers. Erskine, to his credit, succeeded in penning the Mau Mau into a mountain redoubt: the tangled Aberdare highlands. But his bluntly stated conviction that bullets alone would never wean the mass of the Kikuyu tribe away from their Mau Mau sympathies antagonized many of the crustier of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers. The settlers complained to Whitehall that the military were not being ruthless enough. Soldiers in turn blamed settlers for mistreating the loyal Africans, thereby providing...