Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part because the notorious Guardia Civil, the most feared of Spain's law-enforcement agencies, is virtually a law unto itself in the four Basque provinces. One common torture method used by the Guardia is bastinado, the continual flogging of the soles of the feet with a rubber truncheon...
Died. George Oliver Curme Jr., 87, pioneering industrial chemist; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. In 1914, Iowa-born Curme began synthesizing a wide variety of chemicals from hydrocarbons. The chemicals-which included industrial solvents, ethyl alcohol, acetylene for welding, ethylene glycol for antifreeze, and synthetic rubber-spawned entire new industries. In 1944 Union Carbide-which profitably developed his major discoveries-named him vice president in charge of chemical research...
...soprano, he was raised in Oporto, Portugal, where his father found work as a singing teacher. The boy went off to school in Switzerland and at 17 got a job as a clerk in London. One day in 1901, rising 26 and bored with answering foreign mail for a rubber company, he dashed off a short story in English and sent it to a magazine. Within a year he had brought out his first novel, The Suitors of Yvonne...
Aghast Officials. The gang floated its swag back through the sewers and to the waiting vans in a collapsible rubber boat and on a raft made of inner tubes. A note that the industrious looters left behind, signed with an inverted peace symbol, said simply: "No gunplay, no violence, no hate...
Although the growth of personal income also slowed during June, partly as a result of the rubber workers' strike, the new numbers did not shake the Ford Administration's cheery view of the recovery. During the course of its midyear budget review, the Administration made official its widely reported new estimates for the year. Key predictions: real G.N.P. for all 1976 will go up 6.8%, prices in December will be only 5.3% higher than in December 1975, and unemployment may drop below 7% by year's end (it rose slightly in June, to 7.5%). All these figures...