Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stainless steel ingots shipped (18,443 tons in 1958) for the total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week's end, the B.L.S. expected that Dave McDonald's answers would prove correct. Moaned one bureau staffer: "Had we goofed on beet sugar instead of steel, nobody could have cared less...
...excellent. Franco Interlenghi is fierce and touching as the heroine's No. 2 lover. Actress Feuillère, as the wife, subtly interprets a shrewd Frenchwoman who understands what is happening, but cannot make it hurt any less. And Actor Gabin is stonily superb as the cynical old sugar daddy who knows he will have to pay plenty for his last fling, but doesn't really mind. He has the money...
...first large group of Asians to Africa rather than engage black workers on the building of the great Uganda Railway-"the two ribbons of rust," as Disraeli called it, "that stretch from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria." Natal landowners also began importing Indian "coolies" to work their languishing sugar plantations. In four years Natal's sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves in the new land. In 1897, aged 28, young Mohandas Gandhi was stoned...
...this time Castro was charming the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which in January invited him to its convention-luncheon (and noted last week that "the demand for tickets was the greatest since General MacArthur returned from the Far East"). In 15-minute answers, Castro criticized the U.S. sugar-quota policy, defended the execution of "war criminals." (Firing squads in Cuba shot 28 more last week, raising the total to 521.) He evaded questions about his stand for neutrality in the cold...
...that DBI, given along with reduced doses of insulin, has helped some unstable diabetics to lead a more normal life than they could when they took insulin several times a day. Main trouble: there is a narrow margin of safety between the DBI dose needed to control the blood sugar level and the dose that may produce side effects, so treatment in severe cases should begin in a hospital...