Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with time running out, I.P.C. struck back. It announced it had abandoned plans to route the spur from Horns through Lebanon, had begun building it to the Syrian port of Baniyas instead. The company also fired 120 Lebanese it had hoped to use on the new spur, brought anguished protests from Lebanese businessmen. Cried Right Wing Deputy Nicolas Salem: "It's easy to destroy but not everybody can build . . . Investors are losing faith in Lebanon...
...spur exports, 37 major heavy-industry companies formed the Japan Technical Cooperation Co., dispatched technical experts to India and Indonesia to explore markets for power and oil equipment, signed technical cooperation contracts with Viet Nam and the Burmese Defense Department. Some industrial exporters, however, feel that if nationalist-minded Southeast Asian countries restrict Japanese trade, or if Western European and Soviet competition gets too tough, Japan would turn to Red China to keep its exports rolling. Already Japanese businessmen are clamoring to exchange ships, trucks, bulldozers, locomotives, generators and other machinery with Red China for iron ore and coal...
Peterborough--or Peterboro if you live there--has a population of 1,506. Located on a spur line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, it is the site of the famous 600-acre arts center in honor of composer Edward MacDowell...
Kempton's scurrilous remarks spur me on to campaign even harder for Vice President Nixon's re-election this fall...
...declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope of one day being able to purchase and enjoy luxuries a great spur to labor and industry...