Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group called Abako, which Belgian newspapers brushed off as merely a tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
...everything. In his 72 years, he ruled a state of 18 million people, bossed a brilliantly uniformed army of 22,000 men, had a fortune estimated at $2 billion. In his sprawling King Kothi palace, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and lesser gems are stored in $3 steel trunks fastened with "English-made padlocks...
...like the idea of sinking into a mile of loose dust. Their fears were calmed by simple tests made in the laboratories of their contractors. North American Aviation, Inc., for instance, shows two sealed glass tubes. One of them contains air as well as fine dust, and a small steel ball sinks deeply below the surface. The other has a vacuum. The dust particles, no longer lubricated by air between them, pack tightly and prevent the ball from sinking. On the airless moon, it is likely that dust has compacted in the same...
...SOVIET STEEL DEAL will send 20,000 tons of cold-rolled sheets (used to make auto bodies) from Republic Steel Corp. to U.S.S.R. for about $3.4 million, biggest such sale to Reds in recent years...
...Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats of financial derring-do that have brought him more bitter court fights, proxy wars and Government investigations than almost any businessman of his time...