Word: montan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that William Matson Roth, a millionaire San Francisco shipping executive who succeeded the late Christian Herter early this year as chief U.S. negotiator, angrily threatened to break off negotiations and return to Washington. That impasse, which might well have doomed the Kennedy Round to failure, was resolved when Nils Montan, chief Scandinavian negotiator, persuaded Roth and the Common Market's Rey to lunch with him at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel. Over filet mignon de veau and a bottle of 1962 Chāteau Capbern St. Estéphe, tempers cooled. Roth promised to stay in Geneva; Rey agreed...
...technique was first developed ten years ago. At the government-owned Voest steelworks along the Danube at Linz, scientists soon after World War II began seeking a way to make steel with less scrap-of which Austria has little. Joined by experts from another nationalized steel company, the Alpine Montan works of Donawitz, they derived the LD process from the principle, discovered a century ago by Sir Henry Bessemer, that pure oxygen speeds the cooking of iron, coke and limestone into steel...
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