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...action was a meticulous paring of U.S. Steel's capacity to make, forge and finish steel. Mills, foundries and blast furnaces in such famed Big Steel locations as Gary, Ind., Fairless and Homestead, Pa., and the South Works in Chicago will be shut down. Plans for a rail mill in Chicago were dropped, despite union work-rule concessions and tax breaks from the Illinois state government. Mining and chemical operations will be pruned, along with fabricating facilities in some eastern states...
...United States. He directs the daily flow of legislation and has been known to condemn the initiatives of those he dislikes to infamous "Siberian" committees where bills are left to die, forgotten by all but the sponsors. Those bills that meet with the Speaker's favor are often rail-roaded through the chamber without debate or objection. McGee holds all the patronage strings necessary to command loyalty; as Speaker he dispenses office space, regulates staff size and even hands out parking privileges. For those on his good side, the avenues of advancement are wide open and unlimited; for those...
...first major battle of the cold war was waged over an isolated Western outpost behind Churchill's curtain: Berlin. In June 1948, the Soviets blocked all water, road and rail links to the city in an effort to prevent the Allies from setting up a unified government in the Western-controlled zones of postwar Germany. For the next ten months, U.S. Air Force C-54 and C-47 cargo planes landed at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport every three minutes, ferrying as much as 12,940 tons a day of food and fuel into the besieged city...
...along the riverbank in the low sun, an elderly woman wearing a mobcap carries a yoke on her shoulders, with buckets of water hanging on each end. She is returning to her home, a wooden cabin with no running water, in a village not far from Pomary, an obscure rail siding on the banks of the Volga River, 400 miles east of Moscow. Along the way, she encounters brightly colored blue-and-yellow bulldozers and pipelaying machines...
...even had a military justification for giving up the Pershing II. It involved deploying instead a shorter-range version of the missile called the Pershing IB. That weapon would have had the accuracy, mobility and other high-tech advantages of the Pershing II and could hit Warsaw Pact airfields, rail transshipment points and command centers. But because of its shorter range it would not be limited by the agreement...