Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fruit to feed Brazil's exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc, copper, gold, diamonds and quartz...
Thunderball spreads a treasury of wish-fulfilling fantasy over a nickel's worth of plot. The fantasy is the familiar amalgam of wholesale sex, comic-strip heroism, bogus glamour and James Bond (Sean Connery). The plot concerns Bond's new nemesis, Largo. As No. 2 man of Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
Buried on page 15,385 of the U.S. Federal Register last week was a brief announcement in almost incomprehensible officialese. Its well-hidden message: the U.S. Government has ended its 75-day war against all imports from France containing nickel. Washington banned the imports last October (and promptly impounded more than a dozen shipments) because France's giant Le Nickel had been buying large amounts of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. Shipments could resume, said the U.S., if the French would guarantee that they contained no Cuban nickel...
...French government, according to the U.S. announcement, has now agreed to do just that; it has promised to refuse export licenses to the U.S. to any French company using nickel from Cuba. The U.S. will simply accept the French government guarantee, has already released all the impounded shipments. Le Nickel plans to use the Cuban metal for non-U.S. customers, will supply U.S. buyers from its main mines in New Caledonia. For that purpose, it has signed preliminary agreements with Kaiser Aluminum to form two joint companies, one in New Caledonia to step up nickel production and another...
...Treasury authorities say innocently that Le Nickel can indeed sell products to the U.S.-if it can prove that they contain no Cuban nickel. Actually, there is no scientific way of either proving or disproving where the nickel content of a finished product comes from-a fact that enables the French to claim everything without being able to prove anything conclusively. At week's end, U.S. customs officials released one of the impounded shipments because it was destined for a defense plant, but the customs inspectors have orders to be hard-nosed about stopping French imports containing nickel. France...