Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their story than Bureau Chief Richard Pollard and Correspondent Charles Mohr. Pollard, it turned out, had commissioned the firm to design a house for him on Belvedere Island in San Francisco Bay (construction starts this week). Mohr rents Architect Donn Emmons' own house, high on a hill above Mill Valley, overlooking the bay. Neither of these glasshouse enthusiasts had a stone to throw at the architects. The only complaint came from Ralph, Mohr's half-dachshund. In the Emmons house, with its two-story living-room windows, the second floor is a mezzanine, and the only staircase...
...four-day visit threw Russia's much-advertised Indian trade drive into high gear. In the next three years Russia will not only build a 1,000,000-ton steel mill at Bhilai, Central India, but also supply India with a million tons of steel, almost a third of the country's imports under its second five-year plan. Together with shipments of cement, coal-mining and other machinery, this will build a $300 million to $500 million Russian credit in New Delhi...
Toasting Nehru as "the outstanding statesman of our epoch," Mikoyan said: "Certain aggressive circles have as their slogan, 'Let us arm,' but we say, 'Let us trade.' The steel mill we are building for you is an example of peaceful competition with the Western countries. Let our Indian friends be the judges...
...Solos by an Old Master (Joe Sullivan, piano; Riverside LP). A Chicago jazzman of the old school plays old favorites, from I Cover the Waterfront to Gin Mill Blues, with a gentle fervor...
...millions for airplanes or thousands to buy a truck. In 1955 alone, Ex-Im authorized $371.1 million worth of individual loans, also handed out general lines of credit worth another $15-1-9 million to 130 U.S. exporters. An Argentine company got $60 million for a new steel mill; a Brazilian company got $1,222,000 for new U.S. buses; customers in Peru, Thailand, Turkey. Greece, Italy. Egypt borrowed funds ranging from $20 million down to $5,000 for everything from hospital equipment to coal-washing machines and textiles. The biggest private enterprise loan so far: $100 million last year...