Word: yugoslavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since their dramatic divorce in 1948, Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
Competitor Cramer, accompanied by his wife and a Dutch co-driver and driving a Willys-Overland sedan, started from Athens, negotiated the relatively crude roads of Greece and Yugoslavia with little difficulty (unlike another Athens starter, Englishman Harry Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down...
Prestige is also a consideration in negotiations. In World War I, several hundred thousand Italians were killed fighting Austria for possession of Trieste. And on the Yugoslavian side, Tito's troops stormed the city in 1945, occupying it for 40 days. Past casualties have played a large role in elections in both countries...
...work, "Tite and the Cominform," is a study of the origin, development and purpose of the Yugoslavian cominform and the reasons for the Solar break with Russia in 1948. The book was published last April by the University Press...
...Marion, a Yugoslavian Doctor of Aeronautical Engineering, takes over as the new varsity fencing coach, the H.A.A. announced yesterday...