Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent. His collection of Chicago Poems appeared in 1916, followed by Cornhuskers, Smoke and Steel and six other volumes. His talents were diverse, and almost inexhaustible. In 1927 he completed a labor of love, his American Songbag, a treasury of the nation's folk songs. His first novel, Remembrance Rock, was finished in 1948. At 74, he published Always the Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver...
...corporate and personal income taxes-which would further erode corporate profits-seemed to curb investors' appetite for industrial stocks. While some high-flying issues floundered-among them Xerox, Polaroid, Itek, Teledyne and Fairchild Camera-old favorites moved up nicely. General Motors gained $5.25, to $84.88, and Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Standard Oil of California, Chrysler, and General Electric also gained substantially. American Telephone & Telegraph rose 88? a share to $53 after the company announced that it will fight a Federal Communications Commission finding that it is making too much money for a public utility. Long among the most depressed...
...begin at the beginning, we come in and see black and steel wreckage, rising to the flys in perfect proportions, a portrait of desolation. The orchestra--tympani, an organ, and an electric guitar--play a Greek sounding overture, a mixture of sirtaki and danse macabre...
...permission to unlimber their shotguns. The Communist mobs retreated under volleys of pellets, and police collared 245 hard-core rioters. While British troops in full battle dress stood guard, Hong Kong police stormed into the previously inviolate Communist union headquarters and schools, carted off barrels of riot weapons-steel-tipped spears, acid-filled water pistols and baskets of empty bottles-and arrested Red leaders...
...Economist belongs to no political party or ideology. "We have nothing in common with the left wing of Labour," says Current Editor Alastair Burnet, 39, "nor with the right wing of the Conservatives." The Economist has argued against nationalization of the British steel industry and urged turning over the telephone system to private enterprise. On the other hand, says Burnet, "our social policy is in some ways more radical than that of both major parties." The magazine has consistently supported higher family allowances, liberalized sex laws, and greater unemployment compensation for men changing jobs-a move that would increase labor...