Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, the Chinese made some sales. Visitors were impressed by low-cost, simple-to-operate lathes, printing presses and weaving looms, and representatives of African and Asian nations placed substantial orders. Japanese businessmen were the biggest buyers, ordered $10 million worth of pig iron and iron ore and large quantities of soybeans and maize. Typically, though, they took home more money than they left behind, made deals to sell the Red Chinese $100 million worth of steel plate, stainless-steel tubing and heavy truck axles. In Peking this week, France will take its turn at supplying Red China...
...Dream? The streets were full of happy drunks, but even those who had not touched a drop seemed high?gripped by a crisis-born spirit of camaraderie and exhilaration. In Brooklyn, a meat market donated a whole pig to a neighboring convent, thus providing everybody for blocks around with a snack of roast pork. Manhattan's Four Seasons Restaurant, where prices are rarely mentioned because so few would believe them, dispensed soup free of charge; at "21," where the only drink on the house is water, they passed out steak sandwiches and free libations without limit...
...this city which can be taken for granted," concluded Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay after New York's overwhelmingly Democratic voters elected him mayor (see cover story). His comment could have been echoed by politicians in scores of cities and counties where the electorate refused to buy a pig in a poke...
Minnesota's good fortune has caused ripples elsewhere. With ranges like the Mesabi running low, the U.S. steel industry since World War II has increasingly depended on imported ore, now buys 33% abroad. The guarantee of a 300-year supply of taconite ore, which produces twice as much pig iron per ton as natural ore and requires less coke and limestone in the steelmaking process, is luring new steel mills, traditionally centered in an arc around Pittsburgh, to the lower Lake Michigan area. Another lure: the rising demand for durable goods in the Midwest, where automakers, farm-machinery plants...
...symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul-ups in distribution; plants lay idle for days waiting for raw materials. Kim's flying Red horse clearly needed outside help-and quickly...