Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than anything else, this first breakthrough in the bitter fight between growers and workers, who have been on strike for recognition since last September, had been achieved by the massive support given to the strikers by California's churches. "It is the single most important thing that has helped us," says Cesar Chávez, organizer of the union...
...slavery?" asked Lewis. "No? Well, then, it's better to have 10,000 contented workers than 20,000 men working like pick-and-shovel slaves. That's what mechanization means." Recalls Sir Edward E. Warren, 68, Australia's biggest mine operator: "That was the great breakthrough. We came back home, and mechanization went straight...
Before that breakthrough, in spite of huge and largely untapped coalfields, Australia imported coal from as far away as South Africa, still suffered power blackouts when supplies ran low. Today, 94% of Australia's growing power needs are generated by coal, there is ample coke for the continent's expanding steel industry, and a quarter of last year's record 50-million-ton coal production was available for export...
...time being, many foreign countries were stamping their feet instead, demanding a prolongation of the pause. The Japanese, for example, wanted more time to explore the possibilities of a breakthrough, even though Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina had found no hint of one in a week-long visit to Moscow. Besides, Tokyo has built up a thriving trade with Hanoi and fears that renewed U.S. bombing might force its ships to steer clear of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's major port. Though the British bravely agreed to support the President, they would clearly have preferred that he prolong the pause...
...Jones industrial average broke its own alltime records. At week's end the average had reached 986.13, less than 14 points from the 1000 mark that the Street considers a mystical number. Even though that number may be more mystical than meaningful, the date of the breakthrough will appear in history books of decades, or perhaps even centuries, to come-and the date...