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Word: imperiale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most blacks now prefer to call their nation Zimbabwe, after the thousand-year-old ruins of a civilization of master artisans who apparently traded with places as far away as China. To Rhodes, however, it was Zambesia, realm of King Lobengula of the Matabeles, and coveted by the colossus as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

By far the biggest boom is in nylon, which is woven into tire cord and tennis nets, safety belts, inflatable domes and underwear. Italy's Snia Viscosa is spending $72 million on nylon expansion, has formed a traveling choir to promote its nylon-based Lilion fiber. Britain's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Catching Up with Synthetics | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

No Real Danger. The fiber makers are crossing borders and oceans to vie for markets. Courtaulds is building plants in Sweden, Imperial in Portugal, Holland's Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (A.K.U.) in Spain. Farbenfabriken is building in Belgium, Chemstrand in Scotland, Firestone in France. Du Pont will finish a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Catching Up with Synthetics | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Klandestine Kash. Committee Investigator Donald Appell's questioning of Shelton disclosed that the Klan's monthly "Imperial Tax" of 50? per member went into the account of a dummy organization called the Alabama Rescue Service, whose only ostensible mission was to provide Klandestine Kash for Shelton's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Dark Days in Weird Week | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Image Rub-Off. In search of what they call "image rub-off," dealers lend cars for local parades, but Detroit usually steps in when the occasion or the person is big enough. Miss America rides in an Oldsmobile, Miss Teen-Age America in a Mercury and Miss Junior Miss in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The indirect Sell | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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