Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repaid in ore, and directly investing in their overseas sources of supply. In Queensland, Australia, Mitsubishi has signed a long-term coal contract: in return, it is lending the developer enough money to help build a small town for the workers, a dam and reservoir, roads and a rail line. Despite this, Australia is one of several countries that have acted outright to discourage the sale of some raw materials. It has urged Australian corporations to stop selling bauxite to the Japanese in ore form, arguing that, to create jobs at home, the mineral should be processed into alumina before...
...arousing local resentment, as has been the case in the U.S. Exports of timber in log form from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska have been restricted by Congress, and American steelmen complain that huge coal purchases by Japan are driving up the price of fuel and tying up rail cars. Some top U.S. businessmen, worried about the steady inroads of Japanese finished goods into American markets, have suggested that U.S. companies should withhold raw materials altogether, as a means of thwarting that drive. Partly to anticipate such trouble, the Japanese government recently warned its businessmen in a pamphlet: "We must...
Briggs hit the tin six times in the second game, twice after being tied at 12-12, and dropped the game. But Briggs won a close 15-13 third game with a hard rail shot that brought a "Wow" from Atwood. The sophomore ran away with the final game...
...certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket in the town of San Fernando, Clerk Marty Federico clung to a metal rail until the awful vibrations stopped, then reeled as two gas pipes exploded. Federico thought at first that a jet aircraft had set off a sonic boom directly overhead, then that Los Angeles was absorbing the ultimate nuclear attack...
...plane. Rolls-Royce Ltd. has become one of Britain's brightest industrial ornaments by making the most luxurious cars in the world, as well as engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other into a spectacular transatlantic financial collapse. Their plight was the result of inflation, management errors, soaring ambitions that were frustrated and the difficulties of taming a technology that is growing increasingly complex...