Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worst Time. A shutdown could hardly hit the industry at a worse time. Because assembly lines stopped relatively early for model changeovers this year, inventories of 1967 models are down to a scant 41-day supply-which means that some dealers are already short of cars. Production of 1968 models, for which the automakers have high sales hopes, went into full swing only last week. In St. Louis to unveil...
...least some oil to other countries. Nonetheless, Arab oil, which supplied one-third of the world's needs until the outbreak of last month's Arab-Israeli war, was flowing at less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape of Good Hope, sorely taxing the world's tanker capacity in the process...
...week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct race track, thereby forcing the first strike shutdown in New York racing history and costing the state upwards of $300,000 a day in revenues...
...system connected to a pump-oxygenator, the surgeon opened the heart and found that the septum (wall) between the main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed two pieces, each...
...afire, and all parties involved lost from the shutdown, but the Syrians were clearly winners in the settlement. l.P.C. agreed to raise the transit-terminal royalties that it pays to Syria by a hefty 50%, to about $42 million. Also, it paid retroactive fees back to Jan. 1, 1966, of $14 million. l.P.C. lost its bid to cut the featherbedded work force down to 1,000 from 3,400 (hired to repair the pipeline blown up by Syria during the Suez crisis...