Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fuel oil. It is spreading out from simply supplying plastic to molding plastic products. It now sells 12,000 different items from alkali to nylon zippers and intends to expand its finished-product lines. Such adventuresomeness seems only natural to a company whose birth certificate is a piece of steamship stationery...
...including a $1-a-ton levy on anchovies that provoked a strike and threatened to close down the thriving fishmeal industry. And when he refused to approve the construction of a new hospital for Vargas Prada's air force and six new ships for Torres Matos' national steamship line, the other junta members turned...
Berg spoke lightly of a testimony before the House Merchant Marine Committee Wednesday that compulsory arbitration for maritime disputes "would be a great incentive for more effective collective bargaining." Solon B. Turman, chairman of Lykes Brothers Steamship Company Inc., giving the testimony, said that a threat of binding arbitration would induce labor and management to settle their disputes themselves...
...Jersey, the center will house anyone and anything connected with world trade: U.S. Bureau of Customs, customs brokers, freight forwarders, foreign consulates, exporters and importers, trade associations, chambers of commerce, banks, insurance firms and finance agencies, now scattered blindly about the city. There will be trade fairs, steamship, air, truck and rail carriers, foreign trade publications, commodity exchanges, a hotel, shops, restaurants, a world trade institute and library, and a bewildering assortment of information agencies. Yamasaki will do the design, while the Manhattan firm of Emery Roth & Sons - an office noted more for its concern for costs than for producing...
Time may make ancient good uncouth; more often it makes ancient commonplace the latest luxury. The airplane was the prestigious way to Europe 15 years ago-now the steamship has status value because it takes longer. At the turn of the century, only the rich had autos; now-only they can afford horses. Electricity has made the once lowly candle a symbol of gracious living, and fireplaces are included only in the most astronomically expensive modern apartments...