Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead rf the knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism: a design like J J Pieter Oud's Cafe Restaurant De Unie, 1925, is not to be imagined with a scintilla of city grime on it. Steel, chrome, tile, gloss paint were the rudiments of utopia, but, above all, glass. Paeans were written to the constructivist cathedral, the transparent tower. "Life is a burden without a glass palace," rhapsodized the poet and designer Paul Scheerbart...
There is not enough space here to deal with the activities in South Africa of all companies linked with Harvard, but three more may briefly be mentioned. Union Carbide was long noted for breaking mandatory sanctions on Southern Rhodesia by importing chrome from there. The U.S. government finally made this illegal in 1976, but Union Carbide now refines chrome in South Africa and ships it to the U.S. from there. Where that plant's ore originates is problematical. AMAX has invested in one of the largest Namibian mining companies, Tsumeb, together with other American and South African companies, Falconbridge...
...understood that "emotions were running high" at the White House. Powell reported that he had told Carter that his action had been "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb-and the President did not disagree with my assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...
...threat to southern Africa very seriously. After all, in the U.S. you're almost self-sufficient in your main raw materials. We are very far from being self-sufficient. We have to get many of our strategic materials from southern Africa. There is no major source for chrome other than southern Africa, apart from Russia, and about 80% of the oil required by the Western countries has to come around the Cape...
Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...