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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...face pressed to the floor, he blurts out his qualifications and accepts whatever favor the Emperor is in the mood to dispense. The Emperor's powerful ally is the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which owns 40% of Ethiopia's land and resists any effort to alter this profitable situation...
...Interstate Commerce Commission to permit the exchange of stock to give C. & O. control of the B. & O. Tuohy insists on control as a first step toward merger, since he wants to make some changes in the financial structure of the debt-ridden B. & O., notably alter a clause requiring that a $23 million bond issue be paid up if the B. & O. merges. After that, he intends to push for complete merger of the C. & O. and B. & O., which would create a vast railroad net rivaled only by the Pennsylvania in assets ($2.3 billion) and surpassed only...
Rebel group's candidate, former Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, was rejected by Sayen-controlled union directors, who refused to alter bylaws so that nonpilot could run for the $38,000-a-year...
...successful working agreement with Washington. Those on the government end, likewise, have not been satisfied to shovel loads of post-Sputnik dollars into science with the blind hope that the investment will just naturally pay off in security and progress. The government, with this report, seems ready to alter its program if the universities can prove the need for a change...
Strategically, Russia's new penetration of Morocco (an estimated 150 Soviet technicians will come along to service the planes) did not materially alter the world balance of power. The U.S. has long since agreed to surrender its three B-47 bases in Morocco, in a phased-out withdrawal scheduled for completion in 1963. Meanwhile, B-525 operating from newer bases in Spain supply the same, or greater, deterrent power. But by extending even a small tentacle into Morocco, based only on a promise, Russia once again enhanced its diplomatic strength in North Africa-an area where only a year...