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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel companies held fast. Wrote the industry negotiating team to Dave McDonald: "When you are ready to recognize that collective bargaining is a two-way street, then progress will be possible." For a quarter of a century, collective bargaining had been pretty much a one-way street. If the steel industry could make it a two-way street, the steel strike might prove to be the U.S.'s most momentous labor-management clash since the great organizing battles of the 1930s...
Much of the early progress in rocketry came from inspired amateurs who sometimes blew themselves up-along with an occasional bystander-in the interests of science. But now the professional descendants of the pioneers think the day of the amateur is over, are appalled at the risky stunts of rocket buffs from 16 to 60. So serious is the situation that the American Rocket Society has issued a 76-page booklet cataloguing the dangers and advising the amateurs to stop. Said A.R.S.: "All practical means must be taken to prevent the manufacture of propellants or rockets by amateurs...
Roger Blough and other U.S. steelmen are convinced that the best way to keep the U.S. steel industry healthy and competitive is to develop and adopt new processes faster than the rest of the world, continue rapid modernization of their plants and equipment. The U.S. has no monopoly on progress; foreign steel tycoons are also fully aware of the need to forge ahead, are engaged in a race whose stake is bigger markets, more efficiency, lower costs. The race requires enormous amounts of money, especially for the U.S., which carries the front runner's burden of keeping the world...
Despite its swift progress, the industry is on the verge of new breakthroughs in steel manufacturing and processing that could mean substantial cost cuts. The most important development in steel in decades is the basic oxygen process, developed in Austria seven years ago, in which a jet of pure oxygen is blown into molten steel held in a special converter. The oxygen accelerates the refining action of the metal, burns out impurities, uses less scrap metal. An oxygen vessel costs only about one-half of open-hearth facilities, turns out steel ingots in 35 minutes, v. ten to twelve hours...
...casual essays written for two of Belgrade's leading journals when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin innocently enough: a yawningly orthodor insistence that Yugoslavia must wiggle between the traps of Stalinist "bureaucratism" and "decadent" Western capitalism. But as the articles progress. Djilas begins to weaken in the marrow of his own faith; complaint turns to critique as he demands such subversive luxuries as free speech and free elections, equality of all before...