Word: hardening
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...wonderful that it may be creating a strange new breed of U.S. expatriates. "I'd like to go back and live in the States," a musiu may sigh, thinking wistfully of the soft green hills of home. Then, more likely than not, his eyes harden a little and he adds: "But of course I couldn't face those taxes...
...main props of the economy, 54 tin mines have shut down in the last few months, and more are on the verge of closing. Turkey is also feeling the pinch. For more than two years, Turkey has sold more than two-thirds of its output of chromite (used to harden steel) to the U.S. The dollars it earned have helped to pay for the capital-works program which is lifting Turkey's backward economy by its bootstraps. But with U.S. chromite demands and prices on the downgrade, this source of dollars is drying...
...glasses but provided instructions on three ways to make a pair. One way: "Dissolve an envelope of unflavored dessert gelatin in 3 oz. warm water. Heat in double boiler until dissolved. Add seven drops of food dye to a teaspoonful, and pour carefully onto enameled jar lid. Let harden 24 hours before peeling off ... Cut out two frames and cement your cutout filters between them...
...Steel, which like other steelmakers gets most of its manganese (needed to harden steel) from foreign-controlled sources abroad, has a big stake in a huge new manganese deposit of its own. The deposit, estimated at 50 million tons, was discovered in French Equatorial Africa by a French development company (Comilog), which is 49% owned by Big Steel. U.S. Steel will help dig the ore, lay a railroad to bring it 250 miles to the seacoast...
...chance to strengthen the skilled hand of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom Britain's Manchester Guardian haughtily calls "the best boy in the European class," because he so ardently supports the European Army. Dulles addressed himself to West Germans' principal fears: that military alliance with the West would harden for good the division of West and East Germans. It would do the opposite, said Dulles; a strong West Germany would provide such an "attraction" to East Germany and other satellites that it might in time pry them away from the Eastern orbit. Perhaps even now, in the convulsions...