Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops. But its random nature makes it dangerous near villages. Artillery is especially feared-and hated-by villagers. Most peasants have long since built bomb shelters near their huts, and the sound of approaching bombers or helicopters provides time for civilians to scramble into them. But an artillery shell's whine gives warning only when it is too late for anything except to hit the dirt...
When the music stops, the sentries radio for help. First a yellow illumination shell goes up from mortars, followed by diamond-white flares from planes overhead. Then come the "freight trains"-the wheeoosh of friendly artillery shells rushing overhead toward a suspect marsh near by. Who is killed? Who knows? More often than not, the flares have dispersed the Viet Cong long before the first angry cannon is fired...
...awed by the thunderous reception: "It's as if Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony just a few weeks ago." Funds for the concerts were contrib uted by the Philharmonic ($70,000) and the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. ($50,000). The city donated a $110,000 "trailerized concert shell," a 36-ton, 60-ft. by 40-ft. structure mounted on four trailer trucks. Unfolding like a massive Chinese puzzle, the shell's white fiberglass panels and canopy can be set up in seven hours. During the five days following, the shell was trucked to Prospect Park in Brooklyn...
...their top executives' salaries available to selected stockholders-but not to the public. In Italy, the highest caliber executives get between $30,000 and $50,000 a year in salary, plus generous expense accounts; at the top salary level are such executives as Diego Guicciardi, director of Italian Shell, and Vincenzo Cazzaniga, Italian boss of Esso. The average member of the board of management of a big German company may make a salary of about $50,000. The biggest German salaries are in the auto indus try, topped by an estimated $250,000 paid to Daimler-Benz...
...With Shell Oil and Esso, West Germany's Thyssen steel interests two weeks ago formed a new company, Thyssengas A.G., to import Dutch gas by pipeline and expand its market in the industry-rich Ruhr by vigorous price cuts. In The Netherlands, the Gasunie marketing combine expects a complete changeover by household gas users to natural Groningen gas by the end of 1966. Because natural gas yields twice as much heat as manufactured gas-and thus requires less gas for the same task-most appliances must be scrapped or substantially modified in the process. One result: mountains of discarded...