Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's first public outing took him to the inauguration of the Moselle River Waterway. After six years of work and an investment of nearly $200 million, the Moselle has been widened and provided with locks, thus making the river navigable for big barges and giving the steel mills of Lorraine an easy link to the Ruhr Valley's coal...
...committee that includes Black, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson and former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett is in charge of soliciting from U.S. corporations. Among the field fund gatherers: Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II,* Standard Oil (New Jersey) Chairman M. J. Rathbone, and U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough...
Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt. He barely glanced at the Karnak temples, passed up the German-built steel mill near Cairo and even the star belly dancer at the Nile Hilton who, in deference to the Russian visitors, obeyed the usually ignored regulations by being swathed in silk from neck to ankles. Khrushchev's humor less, polemic speeches and their end less translations bored dwindling crowds in Cairo, Port Said and Alexandria...
...persistence of a busy signal. An outsize and aggressive utility, the company owns, operates and services 83% of the nation's 84 million telephones-nearly half of all the phones in the world. Its assets of $28 bil lion top those of General Motors, General Electric and U.S. Steel put together, and since 1945 it has raised enough new capital ($26 billion) to buy up the gold reserves of the U.S., Britain and several European countries. With 733,000 workers, the company employs a labor force greater than the population of Boston; its annual wage bill of $4.7 billion...
...foresighted businessman who dabbled successfully in fields as diverse as oil speculating and orchid growing (at one time he owned one of the world's largest orchid nurseries), but found his niche among rare metals, promoting new uses for radium in medicine, new processes for extracting vanadium (a steel strengthener) and new markets for molybdenum, a high-strength metal of the jet age; of leukemia; in Manhattan...