Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some $2 billion worth of major construction is under way or planned in the metropolitan area. A 454-acre midtown tract of slums called Mill Creek Valley, filled with slum housing that cried out for rebuilding in 1954, is now one of the largest urban-renewal areas in the U.S. A substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch...
...ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is perfect as a scraggly 19th century revolutionary in this timeless, beautifully photographed, warmly human drama about workers who strike against sweatshop living in a Turin textile mill...
...have remained largely a provider of raw materials. Rumanian Communist Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, wanting industries of his own, said no to Nikita. Looking outside the Soviet bloc, he proceeded to purchase iron ore from India and turned to an Anglo-French consortium for a $40 million steel-rolling mill plant at Galati, in the heart of Rumania's budding industrial region. Soon Rumania's trade with the West rose from 15% to 40%. Now there are signs that, in order not to leave the field entirely to the West, Moscow is finally ready to send the Rumanians...
Pittsburgh is a city with a head of steam, a heart of steel and one subject on its tongue. The steel chieftains ponder it in their exclusive Duquesne Club; the middle managers anxiously debate it in the Bar D'Or at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel; the mill hands chew it along with pretzels and pistachios in beery saloons from Ambridge to Donora. The subject: the change that is coming over the United States Steel Corp. Behind the closed doors of its executive suites, the world's largest steelmaker is shaking through the greatest reorganization in modern U.S. business...
...Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie for $500 million and brought in Judge Elbert Gary to organize U.S. Steel, the company has been guided mostly by lawyers and bankers. Of the six chairmen in its history, only one-the late Ben Fairless -ever worked regularly in a steel mill and was not a lawyer. Says a vice president of a competing steel company: "The operating people simply do not have an equal voice. The corporation would do much better if they...