Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calls itself revolutionary and acts the part by occasional nationalization of foreign private enterprise. Last week President Adolfo López Mateos was onstage in full revolutionary uniform as a $26 million plan to buy out 365 of Mexico's leading cinemas went into effect. The intention: to clip the wings of the theater owner, U.S. Citizen William O. Jenkins, 82, a mysterious buccaneer-businessman who has built the biggest personal fortune in Mexico, a money pile estimated anywhere from $200 million to $300 million...
...have only three men on the governing council. They do not like the Nardone-Haedo plan for modernizing Uruguay's army, fear that it may become a tool to keep the two leaders in power indefinitely. But about the worst the Colorados have done is to try to clip Haedo's wings in a farcical attempt at impeachment-because he failed to get congressional permission before leaving the country to attend the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan. The chances are that the impeachment trial will get pigeonholed by the Senate. The nation is beginning to feel the effect...
...upcoming bumper wool clip of 120,000 tons will mean a new boost in living standards. More than $70 million in private capital invested abroad has returned home to provide new capital and new jobs. Damage from last April's floods is repaired; electric power, in fact, had increased 35% by last July. Even Montevideo's normally belligerent students are quieting down as the Nardone-Haedo leadership slowly pushes Uruguay uphill...
...carloadings, etc. If the auto industry used rate of capacity, it would be producing now at only about 50% of capacity on a round-the-clock basis-the same basis on which the steel industry computes its capacity. That figure would completely misrepresent Detroit's present fast production clip...
...quasi-epic panorama of Jewish suffering from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, is a publishing phenomenon in France. The Goncourt Academy last year held an unprecedentedly early meeting to give the book its prestigious award, ahead of other eager prize committees. Running at a 10,000-copy-a-month clip, sales have risen to the 400,000 mark, a rare bestselling figure in the U.S. but almost unheard of in France. Translations are appearing or due to appear in 17 countries...