Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their first talks with Molotov and Stalin, the Western envoys had proposed: 1) immediate and unconditional lifting of the Berlin blockade; 2) recognition of Soviet money as exclusive currency in all of Berlin; 3) renewed discussions by the Council of Foreign Ministers on a peace treaty for Germany...
These inscriptions were the "Rosetta Stone of Western Asia" which enabled scholars to decipher Babylonian and the other cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled, and the inscriptions are too inaccessible to be photographed effectively. The Cameron party will make accurate copies by pressing a rubber compound against the carvings. Orientalists all over the world are eagerly awaiting the results...
...Government $100 million for his Fontana steel plant, thought he saw a way to pay off the debt: he hiked his prices an average of $30 a ton (on top of the $9-plus increase which he and other steelmakers had just posted). Kenneth Norris, chairman of the Western States Council, .called it "a knockout blow ... by the man who talked so loud about what he was going to do to build Western industry...
...living moment. As a result, some of the picture seems to be happening for the first time, whereas the run of movies are mere illustrations of what happened in a script. But in spite of all the history that leaks in around the edges, this is essentially a routine western, easy enough to take and just as easy to let alone...
Sharpest departure from western formula: oldtimer Gabby Hayes as a bank president...