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...school in one boycott. The school board tired of Willis last summer, informally voted 7 to 4 not to renew his contract, compromised on his guarantee to quit when he reaches 65 next December. Willis faced not only a hostile board but also 48 top Chicago businessmen-including Inland Steel's Joseph L. Block, Foote, Cone & Belding's Fairfax Cone, and Chicago & North Western's Ben Heineman-who last July urged selection of a new man and a policy of "equal access to our schools by all races...
...AUTOMATED ROLLING MILLS. In the most widely used of steel's new bag of tricks, everything in a half mile of machinery is computer-controlled. At hotstrip mills, such as Inland Steel's at Indiana Harbor near Chicago, a serpent-like tongue of red-hot steel is shot at up to 44 m.p.h. through rollers that squeeze it out from 32 to 3,560 ft. and thin it from ten inches to less than one inch in four minutes. At the end of the line, a coiling machine rolls the steel spaghetti into a compact bundle. This automated...
Workers, even for unskilled jobs, are scarce. Detroit automakers have imported unemployed mountaineers from Appalachia to sweep floors at $3 an hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...
...beat further price hikes, businessmen are increasing their inventories at a pace unequaled since the Korean War: $10.1 billion a year. During January, bank credit expanded at 20% a year, double the already high rate of the past five years. Skilled labor has become so scarce that Inland Steel is trying to fill 600 job vacancies, is recruiting as far away as 400 miles from its East Chicago base. Detroit automakers are hiring unemployed Appalachia mountaineers to sweep floors -at $3 an hour. For its part, the Government has poured on more inflationary fuel: the national income accounts budget, which...
...TOGO Working under the Service des Peaches with Togolese counterparts, Volunteers will assist in running existant inland fisheries in Central Togo and in the renovation and construction of new dams and fish ponds...