Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started out as an Oklahoma roustabout, Spencer seemed ideally suited to become a Gulf subsidiary. Spencer's President John C. Denton, 44, was just as eager to accept Gulf's offer. He felt a need for more expansion capital to meet sharpening competition, especially in the plastic lines Spencer also makes. Spencer received several other suitors before settling on Gulf. Mrs. Helen Spencer, the largest shareholder, with 14% of the 3,000,000 outstanding shares, particularly liked what she felt was Gulf's "empathy" toward the firm that her late husband started from scratch...
Salt-caked, coral-scraped, sunburned and exhausted, Roberts, a 33-year-old chiropractor, returned to his home in Pensacola, Fla., thoroughly pleased with his fishing trip. The plastic bags in his car held some 25 reef fish, captured alive with his Plexiglas "slurp gun," which is one of the latest pieces of equipment used in that fast-growing and prestigious U.S. hobby: collecting saltwater fish...
...point it reaches the saturation point and levels off. Advanced industrialized nations currently have reached or are fast reaching that saturation point." International steelmakers figure the saturation point at about 1,100 Ibs. a year per person;* when a nation reaches that level of steel consumption, such substitutes as plastic and aluminum begin to cut severely into steel sales. By this yardstick, the U.S., West Germany and Sweden are already near saturation-and several other countries are on their...
...exhibition of U.S. plastics in Sofia last month drew up to 20,000 people a day; throughout the capital, Sofians proudly wore the plastic buttons they received as souvenirs. Said one diplomat: "It was almost a demonstration." The regime fears such scarcely concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years...
Tulips turned to plastic on my tongue...