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Trial by Fire. What has kept Torroja largely unknown is that most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be...
From then on, because Studebaker is a small company, Churchill often worked in the same room with his development team, consisting of five designers and 16 engineers. The trick was to do the job on a shoestring. The team found a way to revamp the dies from last year'...
Poverty Ticket. Behind him, Alessandri left three other also-rans, who had little chance. All told, they polled only 40% of the total 1,227,575 vote. Chile's staggering economy provides the kind of black-and-white issues that favored Conservative Alessandri and Socialist Allende. Though outgoing President...
Fed Fumble. But in June the merry-go-round slowed down, as the recession bottomed out and business started up. Speculators, anticipating renewed inflation and Government tightening of credit, started getting out. As Government bond prices fell, shoestring speculators were forced to dump their holdings, driving down prices more. One...
Other American offerings at the Brussels World's Fair may stir assorted snorts, crank complaints and real misgivings, but U.S. musical fare is a solid hit. Against such exotic competition as the Peking Opera, Congoese Dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet, the U.S. gets top marks for a first-rate...