Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zealot of the left, David Ben-Gurion, the shock-haired dynamo who is Premier of Israel, used to promise full-fledged socialism in Israel "in my lifetime." Each trying, hard-won year of the new republic, however, has found B-G preaching less socialism and seeking more capitalism. Last year his Mapai (Labor) Party was urged to form a stable, powerful cabinet with the free-enterprising General Zionists (Israel's No. 2 party). B-G cried "heresy." Never, said he, could his democratic, planned-economy socialists unite with such exploiters. Privately, B-G had another concern. He feared that...
Author Clune gives 1880 as the date at which the authorities finally rid the territory of the bushranger. By then, Aussie folklore was solidly built around such romantic idols as Ned Kelly (it cost ?110,000 to capture him and his gang); Ben Hall (the bullet holes in his body reappeared, it was said, as birthmarks on his bastard son); Frank Gardiner, whom a sympathetic jury stubbornly refused to hang and who ended his days as a relatively peaceful San Francisco saloonkeeper...
Firing Up "Nancy dear," said U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless, "come on up here with Grandpappy and light your furnace." Before a crowd of 200 Big Steel officials, families and friends, Fairless' red-haired seven-year-old granddaughter touched an oil torch to a 6-ft. fuse, which began to sputter like a Fourth of July sparkler. Inside a giant blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched...
...tradition of the steel industry, the Fairless Works' first furnaces were given feminine names-"Nancy" and "Carol" for the granddaughters and "Hazel" for Ben Fairless' wife. Explained Fairless: "A blast furnace is always known as a lady and is named for one-not be cause the furnace is a thing of shapely beauty, exactly, but because it is inclined, at best, to be somewhat temperamental...
When the Fairless Works is in full production next summer, its annual capacity will be 1,800,000 tons of steel, nearly 2% of the U.S. total and a big step toward easing the shortage (see above). By that time Ben Fairless expects the new plant to be performing such tricks as rolling a sheet of steel 4 ft. wide at a speed of 80 m.p.h., fastest in history...