Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the State Department announced that the U.S., British, French and West German foreign ministers would meet in Paris in March "if developments warrant"-meaning if Moscow has replied by then to the allied notes...
Political geographers, noting that the road to the White House is impassable from the South but wide open from the West, suspect that Johnson might have more than one reason for his westward shift in thinking. Cracked the New York Daily News: "We'd say it's at least a 100-to-1 shot that, for all his coy disclaimers, Senator Johnson hopes to be President Johnson some fine...
...historic Berlin-to-Baghdad ambitions of the Germans got nowhere politically under the whip of Kaiser or Fuhrer, but before the peaceful push of West Germany's prosperous economy, they are succeeding surprisingly well. Armed now with sample case and blueprints instead of howitzer and battle plans, West Germany's businessmen are aggressively pushing ahead with a more realistic version of the old "Drive to the East." In Beirut last week the beaming manager of the local Volkswagen agency had only one complaint: he could not get cars shipped in from Germany fast enough to meet Lebanese demand...
Even a decade ago, so successful a Drang nach Osten seemed hardly possible, for twice in 30 years calamitous wars wiped out Germany's stake in the lands curving about the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Yet in ten years, West German exports to Greece, Turkey and the Middle East have jumped from less than $10 million a year to $500 million...
...overall sales, West Germany's peaceful invasion force -some 500 German businessmen operate out of Cairo alone -has yet to catch up with Britain and the U.S. But in three lucrative markets-Iran, Syria and Greece-West Germany outsells any other nation. In Egypt and Israel the West Germans are now No. 2 in sales...