Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANNE STEWART Chicago One Man's Taste Sir: How does your writer of "This Year in Marienbad" [Aug. 16] know what "well rusted steel wool" tastes like...
Castro also admitted that the revolution's dreams of rapid industrialization will have to wait. Agriculture, he said, "will be the base of our economy" for the next decade. "Why hurry to make a steel industry now when there are other more urgent things to be done?" Among the urgent tasks is the restoration of Cuban agriculture to the production levels it reached under capitalism. Last week the official Havana newspaper Hoy reported glumly that the 1963 sugar crop is the smallest since...
...than the ailments they aim to cure. Rising at dawn, the dedicated Kurgast gulps beakers of water whose mineral content-notably sodium chloride, sulphur and iron-makes it smell like Bad Limburger; Marienbad's most famed spring is proudly called The Stinker, and it tastes like well rusted steel wool. The rest of the day they spend soaking, sipping, wading and inhaling as if their lives depended on it-and many believe they...
...dangerous bits of baling wire in cattle feed. Davis engineers wrap a coil of copper wire around a standard pneumatic conveyor pipe that carries feed from chopper to storage bin. The wire is energized to set up a magnetic field inside the pipe. When a piece of iron or steel disturbs the field, an electrical pulse triggers a device that closes off the pipe's supply of feed and opens a side slot. Out flies the baling wire, along with a small amount...
...biggest import item, about $22 million worth), brandy, Roquefort cheese and flower bulbs, but it leans heavily on merchandise made in West Germany, the chief market for U.S. chicken exports before the higher tariff. If they are retained on the list, trucks and buses (aimed at Volkswagen), stainless steel netting, electric razors, flat steel wire, scissors and shears will all be slapped with higher tariffs. The U.S. strategy: to show that it means business and to cut sufficiently into export sales of German industrialists so that they will be roused to oppose the powerful German farm lobby, which fought...