Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Factory chimneys, grain elevators, the steel pylons of power lines rise above the plains. In the foothills of the Urals, Magnitogorsk lies on the slope of a magnetic mountain, which is fed ton by ton into the city's open-hearth and blast furnaces, making it the greatest metallurgical center in the Soviet Union. Nearby Sverdlovsk used to be known as Ekaterinburg, and was chiefly famous as the spot where, in 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. Today its 800,000 people build machine tools, TV sets, railroad cars and ball bearings...
Five years ago, the industry finally launched a $7 billion modernization program. By means of widespread automation and the introduction of such advanced techniques as oxygen lancing of traditional open-hearth furnaces (which can double a furnace's production), steel has made itself one of the nation's most efficient industries. Because it has got more from its modernized facilities, the industry has vastly increased its capacity while allowing its less efficient plants to remain idle. This trend makes capacity figures misleading as a measure of the industry's health. Modernization also increases the productivity of steelworkers...
...merrier of its japes. Again and again, when the play begins to bog down in the cool of Mr. Eliot's emotions, Julia bustles in to start things going again. Priscilla Chamberlayne as Lavinia is also excellent, portraying with heavy sarcasm the role of the Alcestis of the hearth...
...modern sanctimonious attitude toward marriage ("the family that prays together, stays together") which attributes the cause of America's "moral crisis" to jokes about adultery. Agreeing with Freud, he said that such jokes offer a safety valve to the "normal desire to destroy the family relationship, to desecrate the hearth...
...FORD STEEL process will cut its open-hearth-furnace production time in half, says company. Ford puts oxygen, fuel and burned lime into furnaces v. usual limestone. Steel industry is skeptical of the process' high costs, but Ford plans to put it into...