Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said a possible location for the track is the site of the present freshman track, but added that this decision as well as all the other details needs considerable study. He said the building might cost as little as $100,000. A plastic dome is far cheaper than a steel and brick construction, he said...
...ITALY. Toughened by its 1964 slump, the Italian economy expanded last year (growth rate: 5.3%) with less inflation than it has had in years. The auto industry produced a record 1,366,000 cars; steel production increased by 8% while most European steelmakers were in decline. One danger is spending by local governments. Milan is the only major city with a balanced budget; in the Sicilian city of Messina (pop. 262,000), budgeted expenses exceeded revenues by a staggering...
Olivetti's 52,892 employees make and sell typewriters, special-purpose adding and calculating machines, teleprinters, accounting machines, small electronic computers and steel office furniture. The company has seven factories in Italy, others in the U.S. (through the subsidiary Olivetti-Underwood Corp.), Scotland, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and South Africa. Three years ago, Olivetti was in real trouble. It had to pump millions into Olivetti-Underwood. It was also afflicted by Olivetti family feuding, swelling costs, and a painful Italian recession. New life came in 1964 when a syndicate headed by Fiat's Giovanni Agnelli...
...yearlong rise in gasoline prices may make the current boost less defensible in the Administration's eye than the recent increases pushed through by copper, steel and aluminum producers. A fact to remember, however, is that even at the new levels motorists would be paying about the same for gasoline as they did ten years ago had not federal and local taxes, now an average 10½? a gallon, grown by 15% in that time...
...with notes. His Art of Vision, an attempt to do for cinema what Bach did for music with his Art of the Fugue, is an ambitious example of what Brakhage calls retinal music. One problem: to watch the violently flickering flick for 4½ hours, a spectator would require steel eyeballs...