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...fear and the cause of extraordinary precautions. The ancient Chinese were so eager to preserve the secret of silkmaking that they prescribed death by torture for revealing it to outsiders. In 1790 Samuel Slater evaded English laws against exporting textile manufacturing plans by memorizing the layout of a mill to build the first cotton-yarn factory in America...
Sperry's dominance of the booming boat-shoe market is not unchallenged, however. The Timberland Co., a family-owned business that operates out of a former mill in Newmarket, N.H., is aggressively going after the no-skid business...
...week span this spring, he celebrated with Greek Americans, attended a Ukrainian festival, and went on to meet with labor leaders and capitalists, Westerners and Easterners. He was in Pittsburgh not long ago, the same day the steel plants laid off more workers. He went with trepidation into a mill, only to be greeted by a big warm handshake from a smiling man in a hard hat pasted with a U.S. flag decal, cracked and peeling but, like the man, still holding...
...town of immigrants and their offspring-Poles, Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavs-whose sense of ethnic and familial snugness is reinforced by friendships forged on the steel-mill floors. This closeness was depicted in the movie The Deer Hunter, whose home-town scenes were filmed in Weirton. "You just know everybody," says Fran Crow, 27, a third-grade teacher. Her husband John, 28, has been furloughed from his job as a Weirton Steel salesman, one of 2,600 who received a pink slip in the past two years. "At first I was thrilled," he says. "I thought I'd play...
...Yanbu, which is under construction 700 miles to the southwest on the Red Sea, represent an Ozyman-dian-scale hedge by Saudi Arabia against the eventual depletion in 65 years of its 165 billion bbl. of proven crude oil reserves. The cities, replete with petrochemical complexes, refineries, a steel mill and smaller secondary industries by the dozen, will be counted on to help keep the Saudi economy vibrant and the country's small but rapidly growing population employed and enjoying a rising living standard far into the 21st century...