Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German response was positive, and gave no echo of the Adenauer era, when every American gesture toward relaxing cold war tensions was interpreted as a sellout of West Germany. Erhard understood the U.S. frustrations and seemed determined to make his country bear its full share as a partner in the Western Alliance. And he readily agreed with Johnson that West Germany itself ought to join in the search for new paths toward East-West agreements...
...bamboo huts, where the air is fetid with the stomach churning odors of cow dung, urine and rotting humanity. The broad, smooth expressway from the airport into Bombay is lined with dismal rows of tenements, where more than a million people are crammed in small, single rooms and share whatever toilets exist with dozens of neighbors. One of every 66 Bombay residents has no home at all-except for the dark undersides of staircases, cattle sheds and sidewalks. Even the wide Marine Drive with its luxury apartments has its own huddle of desperate poor who have taken up residence among...
...firm's 500 complaining customers were holding out for more money that the final settlements may total upwards of $75 million. Biggest single payment: $6,470,000 to the Tennessee Valley Authority. The $50 million that G.E. set aside in 1962 cost company stockholders 240 per share and reduced net earnings to $2.72 per share, but at least, says Cordiner, nearly two-thirds of the claims have now been settled...
Ingenious Engineering. Japan's shipbuilding boom is all the more amazing because the rest of the world's shipyards are suffering from a lack of new orders. Such a lion's share of the business is going to Japan that it now has shipbuilding orders for 4,000,000 gross tons worth $750 million-a backlog big enough to keep its yards working for two years. How did Japan corner 27% of the world's ship construction?* Because steel and labor are cheap in Japan, Japanese shipbuilders are able to sell tankers and freighters...
...that the genuine fabulist's art is involved. An old, blind Negro woman signs her land away for a federal project and is conned out of her money by a young opportunist of her own race. Is he the devil? The reader comes to think so and to share the dark fears of a superstitious old woman's spell-weaving mind...