Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced by army officers. The new emphasis on agriculture instead of impractical steel plants has resulted in the nation's biggest postwar rice crop. The previously soaring cost of food was solved overnight by raids on warehouses that proved heavily stocked with hoarded goods. Currently, Burma's greatest problem results from the thousands of Chinese fleeing across its borders to escape...
...Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim. The 2,857-ton freighter had been specially designed for the Danish government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government...
...public acclaim, most Danes ignored the words of Knud Lauritzen, a private shipowner, who declared that the steel plates on the Hans Hedtoft should have been welded, not riveted, because the riveting of plates on a rigid frame does not afford enough resistance to ice pressure. The criticism was passed off as the embittered words of a private operator who would rather the government chartered his ships than build...
Tycoon Walter was reportedly unhappy about the influence exercised over his wife by her old friend, Dr. Maurice Lacour, a steel-eyed physician with a psychiatric practice among society women. In June of 1957, while motoring with Dominique and Dr. Lacour, Walter stopped his car on the road, stepped out and was knocked down by a Citroen. By the time he reached a hospital, with Dr. Lacour giving first aid, he was dead of a skull fracture. Walter left a fortune estimated at $142.5 million. His heir was Dominique, who immediately appointed her brother, Jean Lacaze, as administrator...
...Steel output hit a 15-month high of 2,111,000 tons weekly, was scheduled to rise again last week to an 18-month high. Operating at 74.6% of capacity, the steelmakers were besieged with so many orders that backlogs were mounting...