Word: consortium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt was to clear the canal. Arriving in Cairo with 19 other experts under U.N. auspices, Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.S.A. (ret.) drew up plans to turn over the job to a consortium of three U.S., Danish and Dutch firms. When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler...
When the Shah returned, as he did less than a week later, Mossadegh was through. Though Iran's oil has remained its own property ever since, it is piped out by an international consortium. As for Mossadegh, he was dragged weeping and screaming into court in the bathrobe and pajamas that were his habitual uniform, and after a gaudy trial, sentenced to three years of solitary confinement. "This sentence," he told the court in a flood of tears, "has increased my historic glory...
...nation's medical research laboratories were stripped of their key men last week as 6,500 physiologists, biologists, pharmacologists, pathologists, nutritionists and immunologists swarmed into Atlantic City for meetings of their consortium, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, to tell of advances in their fight to gain life-saving knowledge. Outstanding items: ¶ The pituitary gland, long given homage as producer of the "master" hormone ACTH,* is itself the slave of a truly imperial hormone secreted by a part of the brain, reported Baylor University's Physiologist Roger Guillemin. From the hypothalamus, an ancient part...
...CONSORTIUM operating Iran's oilfields is working out better than expected. The eight-company, four-nation combine is considering hiking its 1956 production guarantee by 4% to 188 million bbls., plans to pay Iran $100 million in royalties this fiscal year...
...ultimatum came from the leaders of three religious-political sects* of South Viet Nam, an exotic consortium of religious fanatics, feudal warlords, uniformed hoodlums and racket bosses bound loosely behind an ambitious general who keeps pet crocodiles. Together, the sects have private armies of some 40,000 men. Their leaders, now losing the subsidies and prerogatives accorded to them by the French colonials, are dangerous. "Reorganize your government within five days," said their ultimatum. "Replace it with one that is suitable." The man at the desk bristled with stubborn irritation. "While we permit ourselves foolishness like this," he snapped, "there...