Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen of German origin, drove into East Berlin, cached his blonde sweetheart, Helga, in the car in the same way, and roared back to the West under the same peppermint-striped wooden crossbar. Belatedly, the Communists began fitting out the underside of the barrier with steel bars...
...show that businessmen have just been through the most profitable three-month period in history. General Motors set the pace, scoring its highest quarterly earnings ($464,000,000, up 13% from last year). Standard Oil of Indiana and Lockheed Aircraft had their best first half ever, and even U.S. Steel racked up its best earnings in three years...
...even complained to Washington about the differentials. But the Congressional Joint Economic Committee got wind of the matter in May and tipped off Kennedy. The Congressmen -notably the committee's chairman, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas-were shocked to learn that, for example, the freight for U.S. steel pipe and tubing outbound to Europe is $42.40 a ton, while the inbound rate is $22.62. Scotch whisky moves to New York at a shipping cost of 840 a case; U.S. bourbon heading in the opposite direction is nicked...
...Russian agency called Lizenzintorg has the job of selling Soviet industrial patents to the West; it has sold the licensing rights for a continuous casting method to France's Schneider Steel Co. and to the U.S. Casting Corp. In recent years touring Soviet ballet and concert artists have brought home $1,500,000 from Britain alone, where Violinist David Oistrakh, Pianist Svyatoslav Richter and others command richer fees than U.S. artists. As well, every Communist nation has pawnshops known as "commission houses," which buy heirlooms from local people for soft Red money and sell them to visiting Westerners with...
...Little Foxes) and to the theme that has attached her deepest energies: the fateful antinomy of power and love. Her leading lady (Geraldine Page) is a gabby genteel old maid, one of those wispy little women who flutter through the literature of the South like a flock of steel butterflies. She lives in a rotting ancestral manse, she graciously permits her spinster sister (Wendy Hiller) to wait on her hand and foot, she justifies her gistless existence by smother-mothering her younger brother (Dean Martin). The brother is a frivolous failure and she likes him that way. He makes...