Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embracing command of industry and agriculture, Communist states can point to many significant achievements. Especially dramatic have been the economic gains of the Soviet Union; in six decades a war-shattered society in the earliest stages of industrialization has been transformed into a military superpower that produces more steel, crude oil, manganese and honey than the U.S. Another Marxist-Leninist state, East Germany, now ranks as the world's 17th industrial power (measured by gross national product), while China's Communists seem to have banished the specter of recurring famine...
...most effective campaigner for the center-right coalition is Jacques Chirac, 45, the Gaullist leader and Paris mayor. Bouncing out of a Strasbourg hotel at 10 a.m. last week, he shouted to his aides, "Mount your horses!", climbed into a steel-gray Peugeot and led a 15-car caravan on the last leg of what has been a six-month, 30,000-mile-long barnstorming-style campaign all around France. Arriving at 10:30 in the town of Neudorf, he started pumping hands right away and was soon off on a day-long dash that took him to 15 campaign...
There is every reason for a thorough inquiry. U.S. automakers, especially Ford, are stepping up their investigation of these materials as an alternative to steel in a new generation of lighter cars that will burn less fuel. Ford President Lee Iacocca says that the composites will cut by 600 kg. (1,300 lbs.) the weight of a prototype car planned...
...B.C.O.A., however, was badly divided. Many of its member corporations, subsidiaries of Big Steel or Big Oil, or completely independent, respond to widely differing business impulses. Their executives split between hard-and soft-line bargainers. Squabbling between those factions impaired the B.C.O.A.'s flexibility and judgment. Still, the coal operators tried a counterplay late Tuesday night. They issued a call for binding arbitration of the dispute. The union said...
...could stretch from Port Arthur to El Paso, and it must give him a kick to play a role of fatherly support for Hank Jr., to hear those lines "Waylon and Toy (Calder) are my only boys, I want to say thanks to you/Your fiddle and your steel made me play what I feel and I don't feel lovesick blues." Waylon documented his own Hank Williams problem a few years ago with "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?," and he makes the album...