Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grabbing the Controls. LeMay's military record is distinguished. (Among his many medals: the D.S.C., Silver Star, D.F.C.) He was, and is, a big-bomber man. At 37 he was one of the youngest two-star generals in World War II. He executed new and now classic bombing tactics with the B-17 group he directed from England against German targets. A bit later, he moved into the Far Eastern theater, risked his career by ordering his B-29 pilots to strike from the Marianas against Japanese cities at previously unheard-of low altitudes for the huge planes...
...Russians in the hungry 1930s. Overseas Chinese, presenting hard currency in Hong Kong banks, can buy special coupons to send to their hungry relatives in Communist China, where gratified recipients can exchange the coupons for flour, blankets and hams. Desperate Communist officials are scouring the countryside for hoarded silver coins and old jewelry, which can be melted down and shipped to London, where sales of silver leaped from $2,000,000 during the first six months of 1960 to $9,000,000 during the first four months of this year...
...sure what the Amman crowds were really thinking or how they would react to an anti-Toni campaign from Cairo. But Hussein had been engaged on what he calls "a policy of rapprochement with the Arab world," and, along with a golden bowl from the Kennedys and a silver tea service from Queen Elizabeth II, he got an important present from Nasser: Cairo radio said not a critical word about the marriage...
...Molly") Malone, 70, dour, right-wing Nevada Republican, a onetime collegiate middleweight boxing champ who, during two U.S. Senate terms (1947 to 1959), flailed away at foreign aid, NATO, reciprocal trade, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, was one of Joe McCarthy's loudest backers and pride of the silver lobby; of cancer; in Washington...
Lord Kindersley ordered an immediate cutback in Rolls production. The company does not like to stockpile its cars, and the waiting time on delivery of a Rolls Silver Cloud has lately fallen from a year to four months or less. Since foreign sales still account for half the 2,400 Rolls and Bentley cars produced each year, the Rolls seemed unlikely to disappear immediately-and even if it did, Rolls-Royce, Ltd. would survive on its aeroengine business, which now accounts for 85% of the company's sales. But even the suggestion that Lloyd might destroy the most famed...