Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved up from president and chief executive of the nation's 13th-ranking steel company, Pittsburgh Steel (ingot capacity: 1.3 million tons), to the presidency of the fourth largest, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (ingot capacity: 6.2 million tons). Yaleman Adams, a slender six-footer, started as an open-hearth laborer in 1919 at the old Trumbull Steel Co., where he worked up to assistant general sales manager. Later, he held vice-presidencies with Inland Steel Co., U.S. Steel Corp., Portsmouth Steel Corp., Detroit Steel Corp. Adams caught the fancy of Jones & Laughlin's Chairman Ben Moreell, who remains...
Through professional archaeological friends, the amateurs got their hearth dated by a new carbon 14 apparatus in the laboratory of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. at Houston. Last week Crook and Harris were celebrating the second and bigger climax: the charcoal had proved to be 37,000 years...
...first such flint specimen was found near Clovis, N. Mex. Clovis points have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...
...from the great world of a gifted boy. Like young Michael, he was meant for the priesthood, but, like Narrator O'Flaherty himself, who ran away from Blackrock College, the boy found another vocation. He is an artist. When he returns with his painting gear to his native hearth, the villagers regard him and his works as the very devil...
Replacement costs alone are high. This year, for example, it will cost U.S. Steel $64 million to replace a worn-out open-hearth furnace built in 1930 at a cost of $10 million. It took sales of $600 million, one-seventh of U.S. Steel's total, says Chairman Blough. to earn enough profit after taxes to pay for the furnace. To pay for expansion in the next five years, U.S. Steel will reinvest earnings of $220 million annually, the profit on about 56% of its sales, will use another $140 million from cash set aside for depreciation...