Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prolonged, early-morning blast of locomotive whistles in the Polish industrial city of Poznan that set off a revolt heard round the world. At 7 a.m. one day last week some 30,000 machinists, founders, fitters and laborers of all callings assembled at the locomotive, railroad-car and metallurgical factories on Poznan's outskirts. They were orderly but they were determined, and they had a grievance...
...away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces and aluminum plants, with auxiliary industries proliferating...
From his Detroit headquarters, the United Auto Workers' president, Walter Reuther, last week issued another bitter blast at auto layoffs. Cried Reuther: "The plight of thousands of workers on layoffs cannot be swept under a rug woven of platitudes or silence." But U.S. automakers used no platitudes last week. They finally faced the fact that their troubles are not lagging sales but overproduction. Though they had been cutting back steadily for a month, they now took drastic action. The week's score: 111,200 cars, almost 67,000 less than the same weekof...
...question is particularly pressing at the present moment, for both the Soviet Union and the United States seem content to blast away until the H-bomb is perfected without great concern over the possible radioactive effects that can come from the tests themselves. True, the U.S. did help sponsor action in last fall's United Nations General Assembly to set up a special committee to survey the effects of radiation "on man and his environment." But this country has proceeded, nevertheless, with plans for bigger and better H-bomb tests in the Pacific, and cancelled last week's not because...
...world's biggest steelmaker, the blast furnaces never blazed higher. In the first three months of 1956, U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger M. Blough reported sales of $1.1 billion, a record for any quarter, while earnings of $104 million, up $32 million, touched off a first-quarter peak. But with the expanding good times came an issue for hot debate in the industry: should steel prices be boosted in 1956? As far as Big Steel's Chairman Blough, whose company is the industry's traditional price-setter, was concerned, the answer was no. Though heavy wage demands...