Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really hopeful thing is that Turkey isn't standing still, or slipping backward. It's advancing. Turkish agricultural land is expanding; this year there is an alltime high of 10.5 million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant...
When the first casualty figures came in from Korea-nearly 25% of the brigade-Wadsworth called on Köprülü to extend the U.S.'s condolences to the Turkish people. "Don't feel sorry for us, Mr. Ambassador," Köprülü said. "This is a most wonderful thing for Turkey. Since World War II, the world has been saying that Turkish soldiers were no good. Now the world will know we can fight, and will fight...
...this means money to the Turks. The cotton crop will be worth $165 million this year (last pre-ECA crop: $25 million); wheat, $535 million. The ECA people would have you believe it's the Marshall Plan that has done it. The Turkish Democratic Party says it's their doing. Both acknowledge a valuable assist from Allah, who brought rains at just the right time during the growing season. Most of the $294 million of Marshall Plan aid has been passed on to the farmer: 6,468 tractors, 3,242 disk plows, 6,176 tractor-drawn plows...
Frye describes present-day problems in Iran in the book, "The United States and Turkey and Iran," just published by the University Press. Co-author with Frye is Lewis V. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Turkish Language and History at Princeton...
...wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent for throwing an inkwell at the mother superior, her year's work in a pottery factory ("to get to know people better"), her melodramatic escape from a Turkish ship during the Spanish civil war, her five years of active struggle against the Franco regime...