Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fault Labor's timing. Despite a quicksilver majority of three, Wilson has managed to push through his most unpalatable legislation, a series of belt-tightening measures designed to whip Britain's flabby economy into competitive trim. The one issue that might conceivably have toppled the government, steel nationalization, has been discreetly shelved until the next parliamentary session, starting in November. In the breathing spell thus gained, Wilson aims to woo the Liberal Party to his side, thereby boosting his effective majority to a relatively dependable...
...refinery. New workers are most urgently needed in the far-out outback of Western Australia, where some of the world's richest iron-ore reserves have been discovered since 1960 and are being developed in company with a whole clutch of vast new enterprises, notably a $100 million steel complex, bauxite mines, $100 million worth of oil refineries at Kwinana, a 500-mile railroad to Kalgoorlie. In the southwest's ambitious Esperance project, foreign labor has also helped turn 14 million arid acres into promising farm land that will boost the nation's biggest export crops, wool...
...lightweight bulletproof vest and seat protector is being issued to U.S. helicopter pilots. Made of a classified combination of synthetic fibers and metal, weighing half as much as steel, the vest can absorb the full impact of a rifle or pistol bullet, shredding the bullet as it pierces the outer layer of the plating...
Yoshimura set out with "passion, sincerity and artistic fervor" to achieve "the finest possible space effect through the simplest possible composition." While using modern materials like steel and concrete, he hoped to build "a new palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of being preserved for posterity." His design called for a quadrangle of ceremonial halls (the Emperor will "commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors...
...them broke their own backs while trying to buck their riders off. The great White Pacing Stallion, the most famous mustang of them all, was captured after a pursuit of more than 200 miles, but proudly refused to eat in captivity and died. Wildest of all was "the massive steel-dust stallion" described by Blackfoot Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. When his herd was corraled, the stallion went mad with fury and frustration. He murdered two other young stallions, fought off a dozen men with rawhide lariats, climbed over a seven-foot fence, smashed through a barrier of logs, charged...