Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From one of the great open-hearth furnaces poured a molten white stream-steel. The rolling mill clanked out the first structural shapes. A white-clad band struck up the national anthem. The Volta Redonda steel plant (not far from Rio de Janeiro), the most impressive industrial sight in Latin America, was officially in operation. Brazil's dream of industrial self-sufficiency was being realized...
...finished off the drink, and taking a long drag from his cigarette, casually flipped it into the fire place. It missed. He picked it up and tried again. The butt looped neatly into the shadows of the hearth, and Vag, following his reflected image in the glass, turned on a well-worn heel and sauntered over to his desk...
...there was trouble ahead. A shortage in freight cars was already pinching production. Last week Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had to close down six open-hearth furnaces; the Carnegie plant at Gary, Ind. had 14,000 tons of finished steel waiting to be shipped. Reason for the car shortage: 1) the roads have 33,000 fewer cars than last year and, afraid of overbuying, have not placed enough orders to fill the gap; 2) freight car builders, hobbled by the steel strike, turned out only a piddling 14,282 cars in the first half of 1946. With steel mills cutting...
Sleeping Turrets. Most startling feature was in the chimney: a vertical window through which Loeb would be able to watch the smoke and flame from his hearth, ascending like mercury in a thermometer. The bedrooms, designed to be dark, had no window except a narrow band of glass around the roof-edge. They were circular, air-conditioned "sleeping turrets," cork-lined for added coziness...
...ambassador did not seem particularly enchanted with Detroit, nor with the detectives who formed a wall of flesh around him throughout his visit. But he was shown capitalistic splendor of all types. He was taken to the Ford plant, equipped with goggles, and directed to stare into an open hearth furnace. Russian-born Mike Mukol, a steelworker, was called up to explain everything...