Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloody disaster." Nations have to begin somehow; occasionally just plain good luck comes along to give them a boost. A few years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some unlikely nations have been struggling along for many years-little San Marino smack in the middle of Italy, Haiti and the Dominican Republic-and there is not much hope that their situation will improve. On the other hand, a minuscule country like Switzerland...
...uranium would be satisfied by 1970. But a new contract with the Atomic Energy Commission allows the company to sell uranium commercially, and nuclear-minded private utilities promise a rich future market. Nevertheless, Homestake is diversifying further, has lately entered partnerships to produce potash (for fertilizer) in Saskatchewan, iron in Australia, lead and zinc in Missouri, and is studying a copper mining investment in Mauritania...
...amendment will probably be deleted in the Senate-House conference to iron out differences in the versions of the bill. Dorsch said that they are "worrying about first things first. We still have to get it through the Senate...
...launched 47 state enterprises that have invaded almost every sector of the economy. All but three of them are deep in the red, and the Kwame Nkrumah Steel Works had to close down after three months because it had used up all of Ghana's scrap iron, its only source of raw material. Government payrolls swelled to an amazing 250,000 people -two-thirds of all salaried workers in Ghana-and corruption was rampant. The wife of one of Nkrumah's Ministers imported a gold-plated bed, and one of his close advisers emptied his private swimming pool...
Harold Howe II, the U.S. Commissioner of Education, met with top banking and college officials at the White House this week to iron out conflicts over the administration's new student loan program...