Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lockheed's inevitable answer is diversification. The company makes neither shoes nor sealing wax, but its 43 plants do build ships, satellites, research submarines and even a 220-ft. hydrofoil vessel. Lockheed maintains President Johnson's Boeing-built 707 jet. Its 300 products range from metal micro-particles .025 in. in diameter-as small as sifted sand-to the Polaris missiles, capable of bearing hydrogen warheads from beneath the sea to targets 2,500 miles away. Lockheed's second-stage Agena rocket has put more payload in orbit than any other U.S. booster, telemetered more data from...
...plumbers naturally command the best wages. Where they can, they jealously restrict admission to unions-and apprenticeship-to their own progeny. A recent Labor Department survey of apprenticeship programs in twelve major cities found only 16 Negroes training to be electricians, five learning plumbing, and two Negro apprentice sheet-metal workers. As a result, a typical city such as Chicago, with a Negro population greater than the entire population of Baltimore, has no Negro sheet-metal workers, only 40 Negro pipe fitters, 200 electricians...
...commercials' methods are as brutal as they are efficient. Instead of nets, which are useless against big game fish, the fishermen string out "long lines" -ropes or metal cables anywhere from two to 60 miles in length with baited hooks attached every twelve to 25 ft. The long lines are left in the water for 24 hours or more, supported by buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California...
...NICOLAS SCHÖFFER, 53, a Hungarian-born Parisian, builds Erector set-like perforated grids, convex mirrors and metal latticework. He views these not as art works but rather as the medium to express his vision of "spatiodynamics." His largest work to date is his 170-ft.-tall computerized Cybernetic Tower in Belgium, which emits sounds of street noises mixed with electronic music. Other works blink, twinkle, and swathe the space around them with elusive illuminations, sometimes changing 300 times a second like whirling dervishes of light...
...plastics. And if the "fixed" 42? price is high, the uncontrolled price is even higher. The large companies, which set their own price, normally sell only to large and regular customers; smaller buyers must compete for the remaining 30% of the copper supply on commodity markets like the London Metal Exchange, where last week copper was trading at up to a nearly prohibitive 71? a pound...