Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping with an old family custom, a cousin of Jordan's young King Hussein gratefully took the helping hand of the British government last week. On dole in Scunthorpe, England, after being laid off from his $34-a-week job in a steel mill, was Hussein Mohammed Sagaff, 29, who nevertheless decided not to go home again: "My family would give me money if I returned to the Middle East, but I prefer the Western way of life-to be able to take my wife to a dance if I like...
...review speculated that further price rises might be held down by the large inventories still on hand. Recent price rises in steel and other raw materials, said the report, were encouraged by the Mideast crisis, and might prove to be transitory. In one case they had already proved so; custom smelters of copper, who fortnight ago raised their prices ½? to 27? a lb., last week cut their prices back to 26½?. But steel showed no sign of retreat, as steel price hikes spread to 65% of the industry's output. Though Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver...
...wealthy Jewish bankers in Baghdad often did business with the Pasha. Though Sabah, an Iraqi air force officer, was already married to an Egyptian heiress, he fell in love with Nadia and kept trysts with her in London and Lebanon. Finally he asked her to become, as Mohammedan custom allows, his second wife. They were married at Mosul in 1939, lived in Nuri's household in Baghdad, and fled with the rest of Nuri's family to Palestine when a German-backed army coup momentarily toppled his government during World War II. On their return to Baghdad, their...
...Although custom-tutored in privacy, Britain's royal Windsors have traditionally-like W. S. Gilbert's House of Peers -"made no pretense to intellectual eminence or scholarship sublime." Drawing down his term's end report from Cheam School, Charles, Prince of Wales, first heir to the throne to attend preparatory boarding school, showed an ambiguous relationship to the family tradition. With a 70, the prince led his 20-member class in geography. "In French," said a Cheam teacher, "he made excellent progress," i.e., 52; but "he did not do so well in maths...
...Spurred on by a hike in steel prices (see below), Aluminum Co. of America led other major producers in raising the price of basic aluminum pig 7/10? per lb., to 24.7?. Reflecting lively European demand for copper, custom smelters hiked the price of refined copper...