Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States Weather Bureau has taken over routine weather observations at the University's Blue Hill Observatory in Milton, leaving the observatory staff free to conduct basic weather research...
Meanwhile the University staff will conduct research into dust layers in a portion of the earth's atmosphere, especially through examination of the sun's rays at twilight. This is considered of possible importance to future space travel...
...with his eye on the future as well as the present, Blough has vigorously pushed U.S. Steel's expenditures for research, built the world's largest ferrous-metallurgy laboratory at Monroeville, Pa. With the rest of industry, U.S. Steel's scientists are studying the behavior of ores to make the most effective use of raw materials, working on special steels needed in rocketry and nuclear weapons, and turning out such new consumer products as aluminum-coated steel sheets for the automobile industry, vinyl-covered sheets in many colors for TV cabinets, wall panels, doors...
France has one of the best and most buoyant steel positions in its history, raised production to a record 16.2 million tons last year. The industry is modern, research conscious and anxious to win new markets. Though Japan is still considered a high-cost producer of iron and steel-mainly because it has to import raw materials-it also manages to compete actively abroad, is moving into South America at the expense of the U.S. industry. Japan's steel industry is dominated by six big firms led by Yawata Iron & Steel, under President Arakazu Ojima, who wants the industry...
Dramatic Change. The best hope for the U.S. steel industry in holding its own against foreign competition is the dramatic change that has taken place in the industry since World War II. Steelmen have spent $12 billion for new plant and equipment, poured millions into research. Once a prince-and-pauper industry that lost money at a downturn in the economy, the steel industry has become so efficient that it was able to report healthy profits during the recession (1958: $877 million), while operating at only 60.6% of capacity. So much has the industry changed its complexion that steel stocks...