Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the scrub pines and lakes of the Manitoba wilderness, where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
...nationalists, to commit a 2,000-man Filipino force to Viet Nam. On the eve of his departure for his 15-day U.S. swing, Marcos had seen off 700 members of a security battalion before they boarded two Saigon-bound troopships. Said Johnson, obviously moved: "Your people and mine have shared suffering and victory. So we are not only friends; we are brothers...
...loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule, he declared: "For over seven decades, your nation and mine have walked the path of democracy. We have followed you. And we do not regret...
...field is wide open. One reason is that anyone who really qualifies for the job can probably earn more in corporate life than the flat $125,000 that the Big Board presidency pays. Franklin Roosevelt once described the post as "the worst job in the world next to mine." In financial circles, it is commonly said that "Funston has 1,366 bosses," a reference to the exchange's 1,366 often warring members. The exchange's constitution allots so much power to its board of governors that the president is often regarded as merely a figurehead...
Still, even without the investment credit, a massive amount of capital spending will be undertaken. Some of it is based on expanding markets. Phelps Dodge reported that it was going ahead with a $100 million copper mine development program in New Mexico because "our customers are waiting." Pittsburgh Plate Glass has a $125 million program under way to build new chemical facilities because there is a solid, steady demand for such output; a $37 million chlorine and caustic-soda plant at Lake Charles, La., was announced last week in the midst of the furor over the Johnson tax program. Anheuser...