Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destroy secret documents, Bucher installed an electric paper shredder and a small incinerator. The burner was totally inadequate for the amount of classified material Pueblo would carry. But Bucher could not know that because he was not even cleared for access to the ship's supersecret "research" compartment. His request for either a twin-mount 20-mm. or single-mount 40-mm. cannons to defend his vessel went unheeded by Navy brass. Instead, he was issued two .50-cal. machine guns that would be useless against another ship. The basic problem, said Bucher, was money. The original...
...assailed by such temptations of existential heroism. For the most part, the U.S. serviceman fights hard, risks his life and sometimes gives it in the service of his country. It seems unreasonable to ask him to continue risking his life in prison merely to avoid signing a scrap of paper that nobody takes very seriously anyway...
...speculators, hoarders and industrial users, they also agreed to stop buying and selling the metal except to settle debts among nations. Thus the world's monetary gold stocks were artificially frozen at $40 billion. But nations' appetites for gold have grown stronger, and their trust in paper currencies has become weaker. In the past year, these countries have changed the percentages of gold (as against paper money and credits) in their national reserves in the following...
...crisis could be set off by any substantial deficit in the U.S. payments balance or by a bad British trade report, a weakening of the French franc, or some political event that would fan distrust of paper currencies. Of all the possibilities, bankers worry most about the increasing disparity between the economic strength of West Germany and the weakness of France and Britain...
...surprisingly, Shiffert turns up his nose at Pampers. He points out that the plastic outer covers have to be removed before the paper filler is flushed down a toilet, and that it sometimes clogs up plumbing. P. & G. executives contend that clogging seldom if ever occurs. Some time ago, Shiffert's group hired a Manhattan market-research firm, Drake Sheehan/Stewart Dougall, which concluded that the No. 1 need of the diaper service is to develop an odor-free container. That task has been entrusted to the Arthur D. Little Inc., a management-consultant firm, and Shiffert claims that such...