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...multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...
Portugal's Salazar calls his country's three little colonies on the west coast of India "a small hearth of the spirit of the West in the East." Last week the hearth was flaring up dangerously. In the village of Dadrá, ten miles southeast of the town of Damão, Policeman A. P. Rozaerio was addressing 150 restive villagers on their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized...
...Fairless and David J. McDonald, boss of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union, have been hard at work understanding each other's problems. Taking time from their jobs, they made two-or three-day tours of some 40 steel plants together, talked to everyone from shop foremen to open-hearth workers, and got along famously. Last week in Pittsburgh, McDonald, who looks more like a corporation tycoon than Ben Fairless himself, presented his union's wage demands to U.S. Steel. Ben Fairless got a rude surprise. The demands were far stiffer than expected...
...first meeting with the board of directors. Adams outlined plans for more open-hearth capacity, for blast-furnace improvements and new sheet mills for the industry's fastest-growing markets (cars, home appliances, etc.). When Adams estimated that all this would cost $56 million, the directors were flabbergasted. This was more than double the $27.5 million valuation of all the company's plants. But Adams persuaded them to et him go ahead, found it actually cost another...
...Thomas E. Millsop, 55, who entered the steel business at 14 as a 10 ?an-hour, open-hearth laborer, was elected president of National Steel Corp., fifth largest U.S. producer of steel. Millsop left the mills before he was 19 to become a Marine pilot during World War I. After his discharge, he barnstormed the country as a stunt flyer, returned to the steel business and worked his way up from riveter to production manager at Standard Tank Car Co. He was later hired as a salesman for Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary), climbed steadily until he became Weirton...