Word: furnacemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian Negroes who have poured into London and the industrial Midlands since the war, and complained of their un-English habits of nursing babies in public, living six and eight to a room, dancing and singing in the streets. But the Negroes, mostly Jamaicans, readily found jobs as laborers, furnacemen in foundries, dishwashers, transport workers-all the jobs that, as a Ministry of Labor official explained, "our people find too hot and dusty." A few of the newcomers did well enough to buy small terrace houses and flashy autos...
...Research. Inc. and Bethlehem Steel have developed and extensively tested their "H-Iron" process. This process has the unique distinction of being the only one on which detailed cost figures have so far been revealed. Hydrocarbon's Dr. Arthur M. Squires recently told an audience of oldtime blast furnacemen in Pittsburgh that a 2,200-ton-a-day "H-Iron" plant can now be built in Texas for $23 million or on the East Coast for $24 million v. $47 million for a blast furnace with the same capacity. Squires estimated that fuel costs in gas-rich Texas would...
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