Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evidence. In the warehouse, at a sixth-floor window overlooking Elm Street, police found the killer's roost. Remains of a fried-chicken dinner, an empty Coke bottle, and three empty shell cases lay near by. The assassin had stacked book boxes against one wall so that he could not be seen through the window. He had sat on another box. Beneath the outside window, he had placed three boxes that served as a rifle rest. From that he had been able to track the slow-moving presidential car until it got past him, then got off three shots...
...conformity with its original style. Anticipating the likelihood of war damage, Munich had carefully disassembled the gold and white interior decorations of its Cuvilliés Theater before the bombs fell, so that when it was rebuilt in 1958, all its ornaments and trappings were intact. But inside its shell, the Nationaltheater was a chaos of terra-cotta rubble where grass and trees had begun to sprout...
...south lawn of the White House, some 70 feet from Caroline and John Kennedy's treehouse, swing and jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet missiles in Cuba, photos of Jackie and the children. Johnson lingered only briefly, decided to work...
Nobel Plastic. Already associated with Montecatini in marketing pesticides in Italy and making plastics in The Netherlands, Shell is anxious to get in on the promising petrochemical industry in Italy. For one thing, Shell wants to make sure that all the Italian petrochemical business does not eventually go to E.N.I., the state oil and gas monopoly that the big oil companies heartily dislike. In Montecatini, Shell will also have a good Italian outlet for its own crude...
Aside from wanting Shell's capital, Faina hopes to get rid of such unprofitable divisions as Montecatini's mining operations, expand the company's aluminum operations and concentrate more on producing its plastic discovery, polypropylene, which a fortnight ago won a Nobel prize for Chemist Giulio Natta. The first commercial use of polypropylene, made in Italy under the brand name Moplen, enables Montecatini to manufacture plastic materials that are tougher and more heat resistant than any so far produced. The plastic can be dyed any color and be made to float, is already widely used to make...