Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success story in Canada this year is the tale of the 120-mile rim of rolling land that hugs the western shore of Lake Ontario from Oshawa to Niagara Falls. One out of every seven Canadians now lives there. They produce-in 6,700 factories ranging from Ford's assembly line at Oakville (Canada's largest factory, with a capacity of 140,000 cars a year) to tailoring shops in Toronto-more than $6.7 billion worth of goods a year, 29% of the nation's manufacturing output. They mail one of every four letters in Canada...
...Golfo Nuevo a war area, out of bounds to airliners and ships, and blacked out the Puerto Madryn base. It sent intelligence agents on house-to-house searches ashore, put three destroyers, 18 warplanes, and some helicopters to patrolling the gulf itself, and lined up five warships at the seven-mile entrance, where the depth is only 60 ft. For top security, ships communicated with one another in the Guarani Indian dialect, spoken by Paraguayan naval cadets aboard the Argentine vessels for training...
...trial, the Government took only seven days to present its case, arguing that it was illegal for a parent company to consult with subsidiaries on prices. Government lawyers contended that Hines Baker, then president of Humble Oil, talked with Standard of Jersey President Monroe J. Rathbone about a price hike in Louisiana in December 1956, that Rathbone reported the matter to Jersey's executive committee, and that an industrywide boost started soon after. The Government questioned Lion Oil Co. Vice President John E. Howell about a series of phone conversations with top oil-industry executives. Howell explained that...
...corporation is a modern leviathan that has greater impact upon the lives and fortunes of Americans than any other force outside Government. The 500 largest U.S. corporations embrace nearly two-thirds of all nonagricultural economic activity, employ one in every seven U.S. workers, wield massive economic power over the whole U.S. economy. How are corporations using that power? What problems has it created...
...Seven years later, in 1952, they are still there. Hans, their captor, has told them of the war's progress; Germany, with its jet planes and guided missiles, is winning, and the collapse of the Allies must come soon. Dressed in civil defense uniform, he serves breakfast and dinner to his prisoners, thoughtfully supervises their exercise and frets like a mother if one of the men seems out of sorts...