Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excise taxes on gasoline to subsidize the scrapping of cars. The trouble is twofold: 1) as population and incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market...
...union election approaches, a bitter campaign is being fought. It is replete with denunciation and sarcasm, lapel buttons and helmet stickers, kleig lights and sound trucks at mill gates and union halls. Abel portrays McDonald as a has-been who prefers nightclubs and Palm Springs to the open hearth and McKeesport, calls for the rejection of "tuxedo unionism," and charges that the Steelworkers have suffered from McDonald's "happy-go-lucky, old-buddy, old-pal negotiations" with industry. McDonald, warming to the fight and seeming to pick up strength as he does, belittles Abel's qualifications, calls...
...many of the fire-eating unionists of the open-hearth and blast furnaces, McDonald has been suspect from the start. A college graduate (Carnegie Tech, '32) who once aspired to a career in the theater, he was a mill clerk when he attracted the attention of the union's founding president, Philip Murray, with his organizational talents. Murray selected McDonald as secretary-treasurer of the union in 1942, made it clear that McDonald was his heir apparent. When Murray died in 1952, McDonald stepped almost automatically into the presidency...
...becoming entangled in the attendant complexities of flavor, "laugh at the housewife," considering her role "a series of menial chores which society tries to impose" upon her. Come, come, now, surely so many cannot be so saturated with careerist propaganda. Do most Radcliffe students really scorn husband and hearth? I shall not resort to the statistics on Harvard-Radcliffe marriages. Surely we, the paragons of the cranially ovoid female do not deny the effects of home environment. Back in the boondocks of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Brooklyn it is considered impolite to sneer at mommy's handiwork. We who hail...
Would legislation be any more effective than the vain protests of millions of anxious parents? Britain's youth, with more shillings in its pockets than ever, seeks escape from boredom-and from the hearth. "My Dad's trying to get me to join the Young Conservatives," sniffs a teen-age girl. "But I like this set. They're nice, and they say what they mean." "We hope to stay smart forever, not shoddy like our parents," adds a Mod leader...