Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aluminum for copper in telephone cables. Although technological problems still have to be overcome before aluminum can compete with all other metal industries in a big way, Alcoa President John D. Harper, 58, maintains that his company's product has a "big economic advantage," since "it takes 2 Ibs. of copper to do what 1 Ib. of aluminum will...
...states and heavily damaged the economies of Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. It has also added at least $200 million to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit, as copper users have been forced to turn to foreign suppliers, who now charge 700 a Ib. Despite union strike benefits, federal food stamps and county welfare payments, the strikers are hurting too. "Financially, I'm busted," said Machinist Wilbur E. Moses of Anaconda, Mont., last week. "But there ain't much we can do about...
...deep mine in White Pine, Mich., agreed in late January to an aver age wage-fringe boost of 960 an hour over the next 42 months. Last week Copper Range sharply raised the price of its copper, from a pre-strike 380 to 47.90 a Ib...
...Adventures. Nine years after Castro's victorious march into Havana, rationing is still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted...
Proposal Part IB would replace RGA with the Radcliffe Undergraduate Association. RUA would differ from RGA in that no member of the Administration would participate. RUA would also establish a bi-cameral student government. The Association itself would include all Radcliffe undergraduates, who would elect five officers...