Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's history." The G.N.P. was $589,200,000,000 when Johnson took office; for calendar 1968 it is $861 billion. Unexpectedly, he also announced that the U.S. has achieved an international balance of payments surplus for the first time since 1957, which should add new strength to the dollar (see BUSINESS...
Unaccustomed Discounts. American steelmakers, benefiting from the strength of the economy in general and of auto sales in particular, will show total profits for 1968 of about $900 million, up from $843 million the year before. Nonetheless, profits as a percentage of sales dropped off. Imports squeezed profits by putting downward pressure on steel prices. To hold on to its markets, for example, even U.S. Steel Corp. resorted to some unaccustomed price discounting. If, as appears likely, the Japanese and European cutbacks produce firmer prices, domestic steelmakers will have to admit that the voluntary agreements were better than nothing-although...
...long flourished in Italy's subAlpine Piedmont, a region noted for its soldiers and industry. Grandfather Giovanni Agnelli gave up a military career in 1899 and founded, with partners, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino.* After some early hard times, Giovanni took personal control. Soon Fiat prospered on the strength of racing successes. It absorbed many early rivals and moved from artisan to assembly-line production, which enabled it to build 70% of the Italian Army's World War I trucks. The company went on to furnish Mussolini's military, and Il Duce rewarded it with the tariff protection...
...produced a body of work-Red Beard is an integral part-that has assured his reputation as one of the monumental moviemakers of all time. He himself has said, "It is quite enough if a human being has but one thing where he is strong." Kurosawa's artistic strength is his ability to transform the stuff of life into elements of epic...
...offended duelist. Pope himself had seen his coreligionists, the Roman Catholic gentlemen of northern England, led, bound by halters, through the violent Protestant mobs of London. Such circumstances must give an edge of sincerity to satire. Pope's verses, light as dragonflies yet possessed of tempered strength, were written under the shadow of heavy penalties...