Word: sections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which boasts 31 of the 33 metals on the U.S.'s critical list (exceptions: industrial diamonds, bauxite). The North American continent's only major tin deposits lie in the Seward Peninsula, and some of the world's biggest known iron-ore deposits wait in the Klukwan section. Coal, as one engineer says, is "all over the damn place...
...Alexandria, Va., a federal grand jury indicted 29 of the industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than 20 years, and one that oilmen promised to fight to the bitter...
...editors have culled the best from both schools (the U.S.'s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Clellon Holmes; Britain's Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Osborne) and leavened the lot with sharp-eyed critical commentaries from both sides of the water. U.S. readers will find the Beat section more interesting, if only because it helps to illuminate such postwar phenomena as the James Dean cult, the Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll crazes, and the gratuitous ferocity of juvenile delinquency...
...asocial-society's Underground Man-the Angry Young Man is eager to belong, feeling as he does that the welfare state has given him the credentials of a gentleman without the cash to be one. George Scott, a young Tory by conversion, puts this plaint best in a section of his autobiography Time and Place: "And so here we are, with our degrees and our posh education, our prideful positions in the public service, our ambitious names in print, trying to get on with the work brought home in the bulging briefcase, while the baby cries in the next...
...turn of the century, eight dailies were crammed together on the narrow, twisting section of Washington Street in downtown Boston called "Newspaper Row." Eight was too many. There, elbowing each other for space and circulation, the Boston papers developed their traditional pattern of frantic promotions, flashy makeup and lackadaisical reporting...