Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver, early one morning this week, some 900 people climbed aboard a special train for Pueblo, Colo., 120 miles away; another special train pulled into Pueblo from Chicago. The visitors joined a crowd of 4,000 to watch the official opening of a $30 million steel pipe mill, first of its kind west of the Mississippi. With a capacity of 150,000 net tons a year, the new mill will turn out seamless pipe for a ready-made market: the oil industry of western U.S. and Canada...
...Pueblo's new pipe mill is the latest step in a program of expansion and modernization that in eight short years has converted Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. from a doddering septuagenarian to one of the most vigorous companies in the U.S. steel industry. With $80 million already spent on expansion and modernization, C.F. & I. sales have soared from $56 million to an annual rate of $300 million (fiscal 1953 net: $8,000,000), and employment has more than doubled, to 22,200. The company has added so many new products-ranging from manhole covers to springs for cigarette lighters...
...Production Expert Franz found C.F. & I.'s operations as outdated as its plant. Says Franz: "The company had been serving some customers at a loss for 40 years." The new management canceled the losing business, dumped unprofitable products and added new ones. Only three of its four Pueblo blast furnaces were in operation; Franz started up the standby, a move which has since netted the company some $11 million. C.F. & I.'s rail output was inefficient, and a high percentage of C.F. & I.'s rails had to be rejected because the holes at each end were improperly...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...
...from his diligence as a student. He first studied ceramics at Chicago's Art Institute and at Carnegie Tech. Later he got a master's degree at New York State's College of Ceramics. Not content with formal training, Gilbertson also sat at the feet of Pueblo Indian squaws to learn their pottery methods. Then he crossed the Pacific and apprenticed himself for two years to Kon-jiro Kawai, a ceramist much honored in Japan...