Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proper Credit. Blough sought to improve U.S. Steel's fortunes largely by paring its work force, consolidating its sprawling divisions and ending a costly overlap of sales offices. More recently he has loosened the purse strings in a somewhat belated effort to renew the company's plants. As part of a threeyear, $1.8 billion spending program that began in 1966, U.S. Steel has installed ten oxygen furnaces, is now phasing in one of the world's biggest continuous casting lines at Gary, Ind. It has also abandoned its lofty refusal to cut prices to meet foreign competition...
...imprint of Ed Gott, who helped launch the modernization drive and has pressed for diversification. In replacing Blough, who will become a partner in the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, where he worked before joining U.S. Steel in 1942, Gott is naturally careful to give his predecessor proper credit. "We're only trying to complete what Blough started," he says. One of Gott's goals is to lift the company's share of the steel market back up to 30% within the next several years...
...ranch in Pottawatomie County, Kans. Willard migrated to Oklahoma, where he broke horses and ran a frontier freight-wagon service, Marveling at the way Big Jess tossed around 500-lb. bales of cotton, his friends told him that he was just the man to thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring. Regarded as a curiosity...
...been long and thorough--by contrast with the discussion of Dow's visit last Fall. It had revealed sharp divisions among students as well as professors. There were respectable moral convictions on all sides, and even among those who, like myself, feel that a University is not the proper place for military preparation there were divergences over the answer to the problem. One does not have to be a moral relativist, pace Professor Putnam, in order to want to weigh arguments and take note of the legitimate concerns even of those whose point of view one rejects. For instance, while...
...chances of reforming the R.O.T.C program or changing the way Faculty business is conducted. It is hard to conceive of the Faculty's deciding these issues on the basis of petulance rather than reason. One trusts too, that the Faculty will handle the smaller issue of punishment with proper care, and that for reasons of justice as well as mercy they will choose to treat the demonstrators with leniency...