Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than in 1951, and prices of washers have dropped 10% in the same period. The appliance dealers' association estimates that profits will increase less than 1% this year and that 5% of the small dealers will fold. Many of the remaining independents are banding together to buy in carload lots so that they can offer loss leaders as the chains...
...chill rain whipped Rue Desfontaines at noon one day last week as a carload of plainclothes police pulled up at No. 25. The six-story building was barely distinguishable from dozens of other new, white apartment houses in the middle-class European quarter of Algiers-even to the crudely painted SALAN across one wall. But the plainclothesmen had made no mistake. Minutes later, they were inside a three-room, ground-floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish...
...announcement of the cease-fire seemed little more than a formality. What really matters is the S.A.O. For months, its gunmen have been indiscriminately shooting and bombing Moslems. As the cease-fire drew near last week, the S.A.O. killers concentrated on the relatively few Moslem intellectuals. In Algiers, a carload of S.A.O. terrorists raided the Algerian Social Center and coldbloodedly mowed down six educators-three of them Europeans-including Moslem Author Mouloud Feraoun, a close friend of the late Algerian-born author, Albert (The Plague) Camus. Next, S.A.O. gunmen attacked drugstores, killing seven Moslem pharmacists...
...nuclear technology. Starting with only a few scientific guidelines, the physicists had to create new instruments, materials, processes, even a new element: plutonium. They had to write new reference books in a new technical jargon. Their basic raw material, uranium, was a chemical curiosity. To get it in carload lots, they needed a new mining industry with a novel and tricky technology...
...S.A.O. last week reached out be yond the borders of Algeria. At Alenc,on in Normandy, an S.A.O. gunman murdered a Communist Party organizer who had formerly lived in Algiers; in Paris a carload of S.A.O. terrorists shot up Communist headquarters and wounded a night watchman. An S.A.O. theft of 297 Ibs. of plastic explosive from a U.S. Army base was followed by the seizure of small arms and munitions at the French army's Camp Satory, near Paris...