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...Lorain, Kennedy accused the Republican party of mere "pretense" in its 1952 of "liberation" for the peoples of Eastern Europe...
Since World War II, the corporation has spent more than $3.5 billion to improve plants. U.S. Steel's modern, automatic, seamless-pipe plant at Lorain, Ohio produces four times as much as an older plant of the same size-and with about half the manpower. Big Steel also has closed some of the older, less efficient plants and shunted their business to the huge new plants it has built near its busiest markets, e.g., the $600 million, 2,200,000-ton Fairless Works near Trenton, N.J. Last week U.S. Steel said it will shut the 72-year-old Rankin...
...LORAIN (OHIO) JOURNAL...
...other U.S. cities Puerto Ricans have moved in with little furor. Some 6,000 Puerto Ricans live in Lorain, Ohio, drawn by work in the National Tube Co.'s mills. Says Carl Longwell, president of the United Steelworkers' local: "They are definitely as efficient as any other workmen"-which suggests that cutting Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. is no particularly desirable objective for anyone...
...bullish as the South. One-industry towns such as Flint, Mich., where General Motors' Buick division laid off more than half its work force, have helped peak Michigan's unemployment to 415,000, or 14.3% of the labor force, and the highest figure since the war. Lorain, Ohio, where U.S. Steel laid off 3,500 of its 11,000-man National Tube Division, is also in deep recession. Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor Co. laid off 6,000 of its 23,000 men, is getting ready to dispense free groceries to jobless workers. But in bigger, more diversified...