Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third over last year's $160 million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants. The parties also agreed for the first time to exchange $6,000,000 worth of consumer goods annually, including a few token Soviet cars (the Moskvich and the Volga...
...West. Britain now has a favorite balance of payments with the U.S. for the first time since 1865 (April exports to the U.S. totaled a record $100.8 million). London accordingly relaxed quota restrictions on dollar imports from the U.S. and Canada, leaving 90% of Britain's imports from the U.S. free of controls. The change has been expectable since last December, when Britain made the pound more freely convertible into dollars...
Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
Filibusters and rebellions roil the Caribbean ; neighboring British colonies move toward independence; nationalism flourishes. Amidst it all, the French West Indies-Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies-glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle's French Community...
...other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...