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Alaskans always look forward to the big spring breakup, the time of the thaw that signals the end to hibernation and the beginning of the growing and fishing season. Along a corrugated street in downtown Anchorage last week a sign was posted on a store front: CLOSED DUE TO EARLY BREAKUP...
State-owned Lufthansa prefers to or der proven U.S. and British planes. The industry, which used to be a government-directed monopoly, has also suffered from its postwar breakup into seven independent and fiercely competitive companies, none of which is strong enough alone to finance major developments. And the situation has not been helped by the refusal of the old-time individualistic planemakers to accept the modern concept of team design; the traditionalists believe, as does Pioneer Designer Willy Messerschmitt, now 65, that "the old hares can do the job better...
...break up the Market. So intricate did their discussions become that the question was who needed the most blackboards to diagram his proposals. At week's end delegates seemed satisfied that important progress had been made. Said Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak gamely: "There will be no breakup of the Common Market...
...felt deeply moved, as if on the threshold of a new religion or in the presence of a new divinity." His paintings of the bridge made him the foremost U.S. adherent of futurism, the Italian-born industrial-minded art movement that added space to cubism in the blurring and breakup of the realistic image...
...postwar U.S. breakup of Japan's zaibatsu, the huge and powerful prewar cartels that controlled practically all of Japanese industry, was the most ambitious antitrust action in history. The reemergence of the zaibatsu has been hardly less ambitious. With scarcely a murmur to mark it, the steady reconcentration of the three biggest zaibatsu -Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo-has been going on quietly but steadily since 1952. The three now account for more than one-third of Japan's total industrial and commercial business-and they are not finished yet. Last week executives from three big prewar Mitsubishi heavy...