Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicted on charges of fixing some prices on carbon steel sheets. "If anyone inquires into it," said Blough, "he will find that there is plenty of competition in the steel industry, including price competition. In 1963 alone, on almost 100 separate occasions, we reduced one or more of our product prices. Some of the recent price changes were in galvanized steel, five major grades of stainless strip and sheet, and automotive upholstery spring wire. Now the price changes are occurring almost daily...
...Greek countrymen. All across Cyprus last week, the 7,000 "peacemakers" of the United Nations wagged their blue berets in impotence and pleaded a simple cause: cool off. But no one on Cyprus would or could listen. The islanders were caught up in a Mediterranean frenzy of nationalism, the product of four centuries during which Greek and Turk Cypriot had been taught to hate, fear and-finally-kill one another. The U.S., which is being accused by each side of favoring the other, cares little enough about the issues, but is being forced to ask who is right. Even...
...industrial exhibit once consisted of bringing in a hunk of machinery and putting a rail around it. Today, the most prosaic product whirls and whooshes, beguiles the eye and delights the mind...
Franco's "Twenty-Five years of Peace" is a fitting celebration, for peace rather than any particular material or governmental advance have marked his reign. The docility of the Spanish nation during this period, however, has not been the product of Franco or his system of government. The memory of the war--the memory of thirty-three months of civil agony and a million deaths--still haunts the country. The Spaniard, recalling what partisanship brought him in the past, has not been eager to rush back into politics. He has been an easy target for Franco's peace and unity...
...Ferro Corp. of Cleveland is the world's largest maker of frit. Frit? Yes, frit. Ferro's main product is a powdery flaked glass that melts at 1,500° heat into the chief ingredient of porcelain enamel, the familiar coating on bathtubs, basins and ceramic tile. Since many appliances are also sprayed with or submerged in frit, Ferro is profiting not only from the U.S. appliance boom but from the rapidly expanding appliance market abroad. This week Ferro announced an 8% gain in first-quarter sales to $21 million; with 1963 sales that hit a record...