Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steel, which in past years often seemed more interested in conserving cash than investing in modernization, has lagged behind some of its competitors in adopting the industry's two major postwar innovations: the basic oxygen process and continuous casting. When Blough took over in 1955, the company had sales of $4.098 billion and earnings of $370 million. Profits reached a record high of $419 million in 1957, but then began dropping off fairly steadily. Last year sales were $4.067 billion and earnings were down to $172.5 million. So far in 1968, the company has increased both sales...
...past seasons there were frequent rumors in Baltimore that the franchise for the hapless Bullets would be moved to another city, where the team could make a fresh start. This year the only hot speculation making the rounds is that the city will soon be the home of two championship pro teams, the Bullets and the Baltimore Colts...
...allowed to bid for TV fare that is now available free. Pay operators, for ex ample, could not in most cases telecast movies more than two years old; or series-type shows with continuing casts; or the latest of any sports event that had been telecast in the past two years. That rule would bar pay TV from scheduling such potentially profitable events as the World Series or the Super Bowl-or most sports, for that matter. A possible exception: home-town pro football games, now blacked...
...when he died of heart disease in Manhattan last week at 66, Steinbeck left behind a body of novels, short stories, plays and film scripts that were less a spawn of the future than a moral-and often moralizing-record from his special compartment in the nation's past...
When Steinbeck in 1962 became the sixth American author to win the No bel Prize,* he was well past the crest of his powers, even though the committee in Stockholm professed to admire especially The Winter of Our Discontent, published in 1961. The novel was a 311-page allegory, set on Long Island, an unaccustomed territory for Steinbeck, and was written to portray the contamination of the nation's mor al standards and beliefs...