Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest in the industry, negotiates on an industry-wide basis for most of the 22 integrated steel companies; before granting union demands, Steel takes care to consider its colleagues, who in turn back...
Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, a racing bug and sponsor of Driver Fangio, got so enthusiastic about Maserati racers in 1954 that he handed Adolfo Orsi a $3,000,000 machine-tool order to help speed Argentine industrialization. In turn, Adolfo enthusiastically allowed Peron three years to pay. A year later, when Peron was ousted, Argentina had paid only a fraction of its bill, all in wheat to the Italian government, which has yet to convert it into cash for Maserati. To top it off, Adolfo took on another $437,500 machine-tool order from the Spanish government-which has also...
...Orsis offered Driver Fangio a 50% share in Maserati for $625,000. Fangio, who has a thriving G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires, could raise only half the necessary funds. That left Maserati at the mercy of the state-owned Credito Italiano, which had the right to turn the firm over to the government. Last week the plant was still running-but for the government and without the Orsis...
...fighting man of World War II just as Brando speaks for what was best in the German soldier. As a matter of fact, the script is rather too strongly inclined to see the best in people and events. The war clouds are dark indeed, but somehow they usually turn out to have a silver lining. And toward the end the whole film goes gargling noisily down the vulgar drain of propaganda...
...that the goal of the Natural Sciences program is to take potential legislators, doctors and writers and "place them in society with a solid knowledge of what science is all about. Science," he said, "is a force that has shaped our existence, and it is ludicrous for universities to turn out students who don't know what this force...