Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capitalist Magic. The crowd outside the castle faced Novotny in grim silence - and with good reason. Under Novotny's inflexible, inept rule, potentially rich Czechoslovakia has suffered a continuous economic crisis. Industrial production has fallen, productivity has stagnated, and last week the official news agency blandly conceded that Czechoslovakia would be compelled to buy 2,200,000 tons of grain abroad be cause of a disastrous domestic harvest...
...Sihanouk affirmed what no one doubted-that he was perfectly capable of renouncing "our monarchic and nationalist regime to adopt the Communist regime." Next thing, Snookie warned Russia and Red China that unless his economic problems are solved, Cambodia might abandon these nations and "align itself with the very rich United States so that they can meet the annual deficit of our national budget"-a suggestion that might no longer be very welcome in Washington...
...border into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Three companies are competing to build a second gas line to link Texas and southern California at a cost exceeding $300 million. In Washington State the Olympic oil products pipeline is pushing southward to serve Seattle and Portland with oil from the rich fields of Canada's Alberta...
Cost & Controversy. The pipeline companies, which mostly have their headquarters in oil-rich Houston or Tulsa, are essentially transportation companies that shy from outright owner ship of production facilities. The 92 major oil pipeline companies that move 75% of all U.S. crude oil shipments and 45% of all finished products - ranging from jet fuels to tractor fuels - are owned either by individual oil companies or by consortiums. Service Pipe Line Co., "the largest (14,000 miles of pipe), is a Standard Oil of Indiana subsidiary, and runner-up Humble Pipe Line Co. (11,700 miles) does two-thirds...
...satisfying to restless schoolgirls in Great Falls. Everyone is crude but beautiful, and Max Steiner's busy background music puts every known human emotion into italics. Champagne flows. Famous critics stagger to their feet at parties, uttering dire absurdities about "the prime young stag hunted to death by rich hunters." Youngblood is hounded to the bed of a sleek, wealthy matron (Genevieve Page). He goes on to acquire the Pulitzer Prize, his own publishing house, part ownership in a shopping center-and bankruptcy, moral and fiscal. Finally, while penning another doorstopper to pay off his debt to a Swiss...