Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops entering captured Viet Cong camps have found entrenchments enforced with American steel plates, homemade mortars fashioned from U.S.-made steel pipe. Recently, a new metal-working lathe, imported under the AID plan, was found buried under manure aboard a Viet Cong sampan. Precious American antibiotics, on sale at hundreds of Saigon pharmacies legally stocked with U.S. medicine, are easily spirited out to Communist forces, often in loaves of French bread or hollowed-out cabbage heads...
...endless stream of Chinese periodicals, some smuggled out from remote provinces. The compulsive outpourings of Radio Peking and other internal radio stations are monitored by a string of sophisticated snooping devices on China's perimeter. Drone planes, high-flying U-2s and satellite cameras record roads, railways, steel mills, oil wells, nuclear plants, missile ranges and troop movements. U.S. Government analysts early spotted China's gaseous diffusion plant at Lanchow, the plutonium reactor at Paotow, and the atom-bomb test site at Lop Nor in the Taklamakan wastes of Sinkiang. They have predicted well in advance the timing...
...sources, the Cholon Chinese control more than 50% of South Viet Nam's imports, nearly all of the nation's foreign exchange, and most of the dry-goods and textile factories in the country. They have a sizable hand in other commodities ranging from clocks to cement, steel to soup meat...
...school in one boycott. The school board tired of Willis last summer, informally voted 7 to 4 not to renew his contract, compromised on his guarantee to quit when he reaches 65 next December. Willis faced not only a hostile board but also 48 top Chicago businessmen-including Inland Steel's Joseph L. Block, Foote, Cone & Belding's Fairfax Cone, and Chicago & North Western's Ben Heineman-who last July urged selection of a new man and a policy of "equal access to our schools by all races...
...goal: "To stand sponsor especially for the lonely artist in quest of beauty, independent of all cliques and movements." Art, he felt, was to be shared as he had experienced it best, in "an intimate, attractive atmosphere that we associate with a beautiful home." Grandson of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon and independently wealthy, Phillips, after Yale ('08), turned to art. One of his initial loves was Daumier. He bought the French caricaturist's Three Lawyers in 1919, the first of what became one of the choicest Daumier collections...