Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the war, the by now tremendously popular "fighting prince" transformed himself into an immensely useful "salesman prince." He joined the boards of several companies, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Hoogovens Steel and Fokker Aircraft, and began a new career as globetrotting good-will ambassador and ardent promoter of Dutch exports. Former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek called him "the best commercial traveler I've ever met-and in Brazil we meet them...
...often gently self-mocking, quietly deflating his own balloons. Works like his Paste-up for mitt print with Bob poke fun at the artistic process. The sketched-in mitt is carefully labeled with the materials in which it is constructed; the palm is labeled "lead", the supporting frame "steel", the ball, "wood". The man who is keeping the mitt from toppling over, is labeled...
...Bids for One. Spotting a company that seemed ripe for takeover, Crane, which produces steel, valves and aerospace equipment and has sales of more than $1 billion a year, made its bid last fall. It offered a debenture with a market value of $17.58 paying 8% interest for each of 5 million Anaconda shares, or 23% of the total. Tenneco proposes to take all Anaconda stock in exchange for a new issue of Tenneco preferred, convertible into common. The terms work out to stock worth about $22 for each Anaconda share; Anaconda closed last week...
...Times never let Salisbury try out any metaphors. Caprice, rather than expressiveness, fathered such images as "the Colorado River, ballooning like an inflated condom," and sometimes Salisbury packs them in more densely than he should: "...a lost river to my generation of Americans locked to our freeway ribbons by steel umbilicals...
...miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering 6.75 on the Richter scale.* The concrete foundations are 14 ft. thick, for example, and a cross section of the mammoth dome over each reactor would show 3½ ft. of concrete, liberally laced with steel reinforcing rods...