Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled on into the beleaguered town of Pleiku with vitally needed food, ammunition, fuel and steel airstrip planking for South Viet Nam's tense and threatened central plateau...
France will also provide $400 million to finance a five-year Algerian industrialization program, and will supervise the building of petrochemical and steel complexes. The agreement calls for the establishment of a French-Algerian common market that would allow the countries to trade some goods duty-free, others at low tariff rates...
...improve them by dumping George Reedy. The fact was that Reedy took leave for physical, not vocational reasons. He has long suffered from a painful hereditary condition known, rather unpleasantly, as hammertoes, in which shrinking tendons curl the toes downward and lock them into permanent cramp. He wears corrective steel-plated shoes that weigh three pounds each, but to remedy the ailment will probably require a series of operations involving severing the tendons and bone fusion...
...will bill 300 major clients throughout U.S. business about $4,000,000. In the past two weeks, the company has discreetly signed up ten clients that want to find or change their so-called corporate image, including a major glass company, a drug manufacturer, a food manufacturer, and U.S. Steel...
...Locust. When Jones & Laughlin made its intentions public last April, a stampede of speculators began. Property values soared: the steel company had already doubled the going rate by paying $870 an acre for its site, and nearby Hennepin land soon started attracting bids of up to $5,000 an acre. A vacant lot 80 ft. by 150 ft. drew an offer of $10,000. Two speculators tried to buy up stock in Hennepin's sole bank, threatened to put up another one next door when their offer was refused. Half a dozen groups rushed in and offered...