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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...
Vitamins for 150. Holy Trinity is a parish of 5,000 souls, but actually ministers to thousands more, at least half of whom are non-Catholic. For almost all of them, the old church is the kind of hearth and headquarters it once was for the immigrant Irish. If pastors in the suburbs have trouble reaching their parishioners, Father Kern and his assistant priests do not. All through his 17-hour day, parishioners surround him, and the commonest phrase he hears is "Tengo una molestia" (I've got trouble...