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This years-long struggle toward efficiency went little noticed during the fat times of the earlier 19503, when almost all producers were pouring and earning close to 100% capacity. But it was during the lean months of 1958 that the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, demonstrated that it is no longer a cyclical industry of feast or famine. Steel can now operate profitably in slump periods when many another industry is forced into...
...style. "They never told me," he said, "about the lack of space on destroyers. My baggage filled the whole wardroom. I was a very unpopular young officer for that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed a lieutenant-he built up a steady professionalism that led him to his first command, the destroyer Hopkins. "I made a beauty out of the Hopkins," he said. "I brought her up in appearance and gunnery...
...Lean Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...
...After 10 lean years, the program is finally beginning to put on some steam. Applications for insurance climbed from 46 in 1956 to 62 last year, are on the rise now. More important, new applications are coming in for underdeveloped nations once considered too unstable. In Jordan, Oilman Ed Pauley last year got a $6,000,000 guaranty for oil exploration, and there are applications for $23 million worth of expropriation insurance pending for Iran...
Declared Chief Western Delegate James B. Fisk, the lean and deliberate executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories: "We embark, with every hope, on what can well be a historic mission-to lay the essential technical basis for the important decisions which lie ahead." To the Western scientists' surprise, Chief Soviet Delegate Yevgeny K. Fedorov, identified as a Soviet Sputnik specialist, spoke in the same vein. "It is not for us to decide the cessation of tests," he said. "This is up to the governments...