Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What with Europeans' mounting urge to take to the road, U.S. manufacturers have long been successful in the Continental auto market. Along the way, the Western European gasoline and tire market has become increasingly important. It is now second in size only to that in the U.S., and it is growing about three times as fast. Charging in for their share, American oil and rubber companies are faring reasonably well against entrenched competition...
...Brazilian investors have not taken full advantage of the situation, but foreigners are showing a lively interest. Willys-Overland, 38%-owned by Kaiser Industries, two months ago began assembling Jeeps near the Nordeste city of Recife, where Kelvinator is already building refrigerators. Firestone plans an $11 million tire plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant...
Plague & Piastres. When the first youths appeared and started shoveling away piles of garbage that had accumulated in the shantytown, the neighbors greeted their efforts with cynical amusement, figuring that the clean-cut do-gooders would soon tire of such dirty toil. One morning after two months, however, 90 locals turned out to help; from then on District 8 became a joint enterprise. Residents and student volunteers dredged 30 acres of dumps and swamps, dug drainage ditches and water reservoirs, carved out three miles of street. New homes have been started for 600 families. One hospital and 17 health centers...
...parks and 11,000 employees backed by an annual capital budget of $28.2 million, Hoving has managed to announce free dog schools in Central Park (40 dogs and owners showed up opening day), officiate at a kite-flying contest, and make sure that there were 500 old car tires ready for the upcoming tire-rolling contest...
...wouldn't want an underpaid airplane mechanic to forget to change a tire, would you?" So far, Pan Am has managed to keep bargaining at a talking stage. But unless recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board are accepted, American will probably be struck on Sept...