Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bubbling mix. With a roar that would drown out a brace of jet fighters, the oxygen burns off the sulphur, carbon and other impurities in the white mass. Because it takes barely half an hour to cook a batch of LD steel, v. eight hours in the conventional, open-hearth furnace, the oxygen process melts the costs of labor, power and fuel. Production costs are about $3 a ton lower than in an efficient open hearth, and to build an oxygen furnace costs only half as much...
Traces of reed buts and a hearth were found above the burial. Other important discoveries were made among the shops of the bazaar which flourished at the time of Croesus, the Lydian king during the sixth century before Christ...
Died. George R. Fink, 75, crusty, autocratic U.S. steelmaker, who began as a 10?-an-hour open-hearth laborer, rose to affluence as a steel salesman to Detroit's pre-World War I auto industry, went on to found Michigan Steel Corp. and Great Lakes Steel Corp., then merged them with two others to form National Steel, which under his presidency (1929-54) became the fifth largest U.S. producer; of generalized arteriosclerosis; in Grosse Pointe...
...unpromising one-furnace mill was sold for $7,500,000 to an optimistic group of Texas businessmen. To run it, they chose Germany, a onetime schoolteacher and salt packer who had grown wealthy as an oilfield wildcatter. Borrowing from the Reconstruction Finance Agency, Germany added open-hearth furnaces, manufactured steel pipe and sold it to oil drillers on the promise that he could ship cheaper than Eastern mills and on 24 hours' notice. Using low-grade local iron ore to save on transportation costs, Germany made good on his promise, and before long Lone Star...
...happened. President Kennedy had slugged it out with steel and won. As the dust of battle lifted like smoke from an open-hearth furnace, the nation's press last week assigned itself the task of reckoning the casualties, the cost and, most importantly, the meaning of the fight...