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Often the sons have no choice but to follow their fathers into the hated plant. William West, a crane operator in a coil plant at Braddock, Pa., for example, brings home $100 a week, and he sees no way that he can finance a college education for his eight-year-old son. West asks: "What kind of a future does my kid have when you can't even get a job with a high school education?" In some blue collar neighborhoods, the high school dropout rate reaches 30%?the continuation of a cycle that locks the sons into...
...unintriguing enough in full bloom of youth, without sinking to this gratuitous nostalgia over his old age and death. There was a song, I believe, and the whole show winds up with Chestnut back in his trunk, giving his daughter some last-minute advice before shuffling off the mortal coil...
...last 30 days." THE STEELWORKER. "When things started slowing down. I knew I'd get it," says Ray Russo, 29, a veteran of U.S. Steel's Irvin Works near Pittsburgh. Because of reduced demand for auto-bumpers steel, Russo was dropped down last month from coil feeder to laborer, and his take-home pay was cut from about $135 weekly to $85. Three weeks ago, he got a blue slip notifying him that he was "furloughed." He is among the lucky ones. Furloughed workers keep their identification badges and locker keys; they can be recalled without...
...included in this figure is the batch of 41,850 Econoline vans called back by Ford last week. A worker at the company's Lorain, Ohio, plant hit upon a production shortcut by shoving brake hoses through a spring coil. It saved time and money while it lasted, but the resulting malfunction of the Econoline's front brake may now cost Ford $100,000 to repair...
Seeking a cheaper kidney machine, the inventive Kolff has used standard washing machines to slosh the outer bath, sausage casing for the blood coil, and 46-oz. fruit-juice cans as disposable blood-coil holders. Now he has devised a way to run the machines without a blood pump. Kolff's machines are in the $400 to $700 price range. Another excellent model, now being used at home by about 150 patients, was developed by the University of Maryland's Dr. William G. Esmond. It costs about $600, a far cry from the $7,000 price tag for some standard...