Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share of the heavy-duty-truck market. Signal had hardly settled the Mack merger terms, involving some $185 million in securities, when it reached in yet another direction to buy, for some $17 million in securities, Arizona Bancorporation, a Phoenix-based holding company with interests in banking, land, steel and insurance...
...streamline the work of Europe, this summer the EEC will merge with the Common Market's two other institutions, Euratom and the Coal and Steel Community. The long and arduous Kennedy Round of tariff negotiations in Geneva show promise of producing a 20-25% worldwide reduction in tariffs, largely hammered out between the U.S. and the Common Market. In its relations with the outside world, the Common Market already has in force association agreements with Greece, Turkey, Nigeria, the Dutch Antilles, plus 18 former French colonies in Africa. It has trade agreements with Iran, Israel and Lebanon, is also...
...Steel Bands & Chowder. Among the industry pavilions, top drawer is the Telephone Association of Canada, with its Walt Disney-made movie, prosaically titled Canada '67, which uses a 360° to tal-involvement screen to project the spectators into the middle of a furious National League hockey game. Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion. Most popular restaurant: Canada's Atlantic Provinces pavilion, where diners can feast on excellent...
Much of the show's popularity was undoubtedly traceable to its carnival aspects. Children, especially, delighted in watching Len Lye's kinetic Flip and 2 Twisters, stood entranced as three giant loops of steel jumped and jiggled for 15 minutes at a time. Adults, too, joined in the good-humored spoofs of Claes Oldenburg's gigantic, canvas-covered Ice Cream Cone and Falling Shoestring Potatoes, and his plaster Pecan Pie. They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber...
...with factories rose modestly in March, the Commerce Department reported last week. And manufacturers' inventories showed their smallest gain ($311 million) in almost two years, as rising retail sales eased economists' worry over the "inventory overhang." Says President Robert Williams of Youngstown Sheet & Tube: "Customer stocks of steel have come down pretty well. We have seen the bottom of our operating curve." Says Alcoa President John Harper: "We feel the economy will gather strength. We expect the aluminum industry to grow faster than the economy...