Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, U.S. mines in such big lead and zinc states as Idaho and Utah operated at top capacity, and the U.S. encouraged foreign producers by buying every ton they could deliver. Prices and production fluttered after the war. In 1953 the market sagged, but was quickly buoyed up by a U.S. grain-for-metals barter program and stockpiling. But this year, with enough lead and zinc stored up to last an estimated three years, the U.S. eased off on stockpiling. Prices tumbled from 16? to 13½? a Ib. for lead, from 13½? t010...
...loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...Carrillo Flores pointed out that "it is to the U.S.'s interest to maintain the present high level of exports to Mexico. But how can Mexico keep up its imports if the U.S. cuts our ability to pay for them, if we get less for our zinc and lead?" Concluded ex-Diplomat Henry Holland, who was the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief until last year: "InterAmerican trade is in greater danger than at any time in years...
...dangerous and insane." Klemperer spent his life savings to hire a 70-piece orchestra and Carnegie Hall to prove that he was not. Though the concert went well, for years he was unable to get a regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became...
Unlike the M.D. or the LL.B., the Ph.D. does not lead to any one profession, and therefore the time needed to earn it varies from school to school and field to field. "Generally, the Ph.D. takes at least four years to get; more often it takes six or seven, and not infrequently 10 to 15. Too many programs have taken too many years simply because faculty members and the graduate office have failed to give hardheaded advice at the right time, have shied away from making their students work hard enough, and have generally thought a well-bred...