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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local Reaction. The shutdown choked off the vast weight that the steel industry pours daily into the U.S. economy: 250,000 tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...Meter Hurdles. Until 9:30 on the first evening of the trials, the world record of 0:50.4 was held by Russia's Yuriy Lituyev. Forty-nine and a half seconds later, two Americans had broken it and a third had tied it. The finish: Glenn Davis of Ohio State, University of Texas' Eddie Southern, and Josh Culbreath of Maryland's Morgan State College and the U.S. Marines...
...There's no reason why a general practitioner can't do most minor surgery and most obstetrics. If there's anything unusual about a case he'll call in a specialist anyhow." General Practitioner Early starts practice this week in Lemon Grove (pop. 20,000), nine miles from San Diego, in partnership with an older doctor...
Architect Saarinen and his wife and son live in a made-over, nine-room Victorian brick farmhouse of 1860 vintage, smoothed off, brightened and painted white inside, and furnished with Eero's furniture. (His mother lives on the back lot in a sleek modern house he designed to fit her favorite, handloomed, 25-ft.-long Finnish rug.) In cutting away a section of one wall to throw light on the main stairway of his old house, Saarinen has made the exterior what he considers "better Victorian than ever." The garage has been converted into a joint study, where Eero...
EMPLOYEE STOCK PLAN is a big hit at General Motors. Of 100,000 eligible workers, says G.M., some 90,000 joined plan in first nine months of operation, are putting an average 8% of their pay into company stock (matched dollar for dollar by G.M. contributions) and Government savings bonds. Employee savings to date: $32 million...