Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hombre with the hat was the Wheeling Steel Corp., the industry's tenth biggest producer, which was the first to announce price hikes in several categories of steel (TIME, April 19). One year earlier, the steel industry's ill-timed effort to raise prices had drawn a furious fusillade from the New Frontier. But this time there was only a mild murmur of protest from Washington and Palm Beach...
...sons, who in patriarchal Brazil had been completely at the mercy of their tyrannical fathers. Under the influence of European liberalism, they rebelled and deserted family business for the law or the arts. They were even determined to look as little as possible like their hearty fathers. They cultivated ill health and the appearance, writes Freyre, of the "conventional Jesus of the Crucifixion." It became the fashion to die young. "To die old was for the bourgeoisie, for the rich planters, for the obese vicars, for the favorite plantation slaves. 'Geniuses' died young and, if possible, of tuberculosis...
...Edward VII was ill," he will say with a brooding smile, "and the poet laureate?this bloody fool?wrote...
...profits to $181,000. Scientific-Atlanta recently moved into a new $700,000 plant on 25 acres of prime land in an Atlanta suburb, is now planning an addition that will double the plant's size. The company owes its remarkable success to an ill wind that blew a lot of good. Its bank account was so low that it could not afford to buy an expensive piece of equipment that it needed to stay in business-and so began making it itself...
Died. Yetta Wallenda, 42, German-born acrobat and member of the ill-starred Flying Wallendas; of injuries suffered when she apparently fainted at the climax of her solo act atop a swaying fiber glass pole, fell gracefully and silently 50 ft. to the ground; in Omaha. Last year, when a fall killed two other members of the troupe and permanently crippled a third, Yetta said: "When I fall, I want to be dead...