Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooking seems to have escaped me completely somehow. Nevertheless, I watch Julia Child's program every week, and then the following day, I run out and buy wire whisks, watercress, souffle pans and carbon-steel knives. I have also acquired a modest but impressive assortment of wines and exotic spices. Of course, I have never used any of these things. And I certainly would never have the courage to try one of her recipes. I throw the watercress out each time I clean the refrigerator...
After church, Lyndon dutifully let Lady Bird chauffeur him away in their beige Lincoln Continental. When she stopped to inspect a new park a short distance away, the President made his move. Because the steel sutures from his Nov. 16 "cuttin' " were still in his abdo men (they were removed at week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President...
...France produced fewer than 1.4 million cars, only half as many as West Germany. In steel, France turned out 19.5 million metric tons, compared with Britain's 27 million and Germany's 36 million. Germany exports about twice as much as France. The French may well run a trade deficit for 1966, and the franc has been weakening on world markets. Business is plagued by low profits, old plants, inadequate research, a shortage of capital and a faltering stock market...
Merge & Modernize. At De Gaulle's behest, Economics Minister Michel Debre has begun to push a broad plan to energize industry, argues that "we have no choice but to become competitive." The government has granted $600 million in low-interest loans to steel firms on the condition that they merge and modernize. The government has also helped to bring about more than 50 corporate mergers this year, notably in the metals, textiles and electronics industries. Hoping to enlarge the capital supply and to make Paris a world financial center on the order of London or New York, the Cabinet...
...little, can be seen to issue from their lips on little cross-stitched samplers, which just sort of hang there on the screen and give off a faint scent of sachet. Holmes: "I wish to see the owner of this doubtful establishment." Watson: "Nothing like a piece of cold steel, eh, Holmes?" Holmes: "Brisk work, Watson!" Brisk work indeed...