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...Victory carried munitions across the Pacific in the closing months of World War II. In 1950 she was reactivated to haul materiel for the Korean War. After a brief stint transporting grain to India, she was retired again. Last week the Red Oak, one of 101 Victory ships dragged out of mothballs for service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship...
...city. Yet, for all the sanctity surrounding it, this Japanese statue is a bold departure from traditional Chinese elegance. In this Buddha's broad shoulders, strength replaces softness. Carved from a single block of cypress, the sculpture seems to derive its rippling drapery from the wood's grain...
...year (v. Khrushchev's 145 million tons), oil production to 355 million tons a year (v. Khrushchev's 380 million tons), and fertilizer output to 62 million tons annually (v. Khrushchev's 77 million tons). In agriculture, Khrushchev had called for an 8% annual increase in grain production and a total crop of 229 million tons by 1970. The new plan projects a more realistic 4% yearly increase and a 170 million-ton crop...
...late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago and St. Louis...
Clark, an exponent of a free market economy who once ran for the House of Commons as a Laborite, explained to a Kirkland House audience that a large foreign trade would enable the African nations to exchange agricultural products like meat, grain, hemp, and simple textiles for vitally needed manufactured articles plus fertilizers they cannot now produce...