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...gives one cent of economic aid to King Saud, because his profits are being cut by the Suez crisis, every American taxpayer ought to boycott the Internal Revenue Service. The injustice of this non-Christian King in all his splendor coming to this Christian country and asking us poor, hard-working American taxpayers for economic aid makes my blood boil! Let him cut down his standard of living so it matches ours...
...that the U.S. will give some long-range direction to its foreign aid program, support U.N. police action in the Middle East, and redouble its efforts through the U.N. "to curb" Soviet and other arms traffic in the area. Reflecting bitterness over the break with Britain and France over Suez, Mansfield noted: "We are not using our influence wisely when we pursue in the Middle East what appears to be not a policy of isolation, not a policy of internationalism, but a policy of isolated internationalism...
Some profit pictures were much brighter. Oil-industry earnings were pushed up by heavy demand arising from the Suez crisis. Sinclair's net shot up 13% to a record $91 million in 1956. Socony Mobil estimated earnings at $250 million, up from $208 million in 1955. Shell Oil hit $135.8 million, for an advance of $10.3 million...
BRITISH POUND is rising in value, backing Washington's belief that Brit ish economy is climbing out of post-Suez slump. On New York market, pound sold last week briefly for more than $2.80 pegged rate for first time since June...
...fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal pilot), but in the end his work was recognized for what it was?amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy. In 1923 he traveled to the U.S. to see his publisher, whom he called Doubleday Effendi...