Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...slow down the pace of the Common Market tariff changes, even ready to discuss the knotty "special problems" such as preferential Commonwealth tariffs, which the British claim make it impossible for them to join the Common Market in its present form. Nothing was settled, but technicians on both sides set to work seeking areas of compromise. "They've put a good deal of water in the Common Market wine," exulted one high British diplomat...
...Midnight Choo Choo. Bluebell fans happily set about repainting the gingerbread Victorian station in its original hues of chocolate brown and yellow, with no intention of stopping there. Wives and children helped clear the track of weeds, and retired railroad men nostalgically offered their services free if locomotives and rolling stock could be found. To raise cash. 1,350 memberships in the society were sold at 1 guinea ($2.94) a year. Impressed at last, the ministry agreed to rent the society the Bluebell's trackage for $6,300 a year...
Obedient to Mao's dictum. Red China's peasants in 1959 reduced the amount of land they sowed by nearly 10%, set out to make up for it by deep plowing and heavy fertilization. But in his theorizing. Mao had forgotten that China is desperately short of chemical fertilizers and even the simplest agricultural tools. Result was that although Peking's grain production target for 1960 is 300 million tons. China will be lucky to produce two-thirds that much. Admits the People's Daily: "If this year's summer harvest equals that...
...helped found the firm of Ives & Myrick, which by the time of his retirement in 1930 was the largest insurance agency in the nation. Ives saw no conflict between the life of a businessman and the life of a composer: "The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. You cannot set an art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality and substance. My work in music helped my business and my work in business helped my music...
...original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like that," then quickly ground out the lyrics and set them to the music of There's a StarSpangled Banner Waving Somewhere. So far, Nikita Khrushchev has not even bothered to acknowledge the copy of the song Red River sent...