Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rangers nearby to fend away any stray panthers or bobcats (Big Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...
...words only echoed opinion in many Western capitals. But they shocked most of the convention's 577 delegates. West Germans, who live in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, are more acutely conscious of Russia's armed presence beyond their borders than most Westerners. And their politicians are apt to blame the Soviet Union for the fact that, 20 years after V-E day, Germany remains divided...
...Western railroads get the worst of this arrangement. In the U.S., the heaviest flow of bulk-product rail traffie moves from West to East, as Western states ship their grains and other raw materials eastward for finishing. Once a Western-owned boxcar has ar rived in, say, New York, an Eastern operator simply takes it over and keeps it-paying that nominal rental fee dictated by the Association of American Railroads. The two lines currently hardest hit by this system are the Great Northern, which owns 22,800 boxcars but now has only about 48% of that number...
...Western Europe has increased its trade with Red China from a total of $321.6 million in 1962 to an estimated $622.8 million in 1965. Britain is building or has contracted to build four major plants in China to produce fertilizers, plastics and synthetic fibers. Two 15,000-ton cargo liners are being built for the Chinese in a Scottish shipyard. The French are building a chemical plant in China, have launched two freighters to be delivered to the Chinese, may also build a passenger ship and a truck-assembly plant. The Italians are selling steel and machinery, fertilizer components...
...Sponge. The rush to do business with China dismays Washington, which has maintained a total embargo on Peking trade since the Korean War-and has tried with diminishing success to persuade its allies to do the same. The nations of Western Europe have agreed not to sell the Chinese any "strategic" goods, but opinions vary considerably about just what trade there should be. It would appear obvious that steel is highly strategic. The Germans argue that they are not really providing the Chinese with steel but merely with a plant to process steel that China would produce anyway...