Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the reason for Lukens Steel's sudden prosperity was the very uniqueness that had kept it unobtrusive. A nonintegrated producer that purchases pig iron and scrap for its twelve open-hearth furnaces, it specialized in heavy steel plate, therefore cashed in on the peak demand for heavy plate caused largely by the oil tanker boom...
...rockets while receiving the presently less-advanced U.S. weapons already in production. They hope that this ground-to-air missile system will eventually replace R.A.F. manned fighters. On the seas, carrier task forces supported by light cruisers will comprise the fleet as the heavy cruisers are retired to the scrap pile...
...Elis into an early lead with victories in the 200-yd. butterfly and 200-yd. individual medley. Splashing along, just off the pace, Michigan scored heavily in low-board diving and stayed within easy reach. Of the other threats, Indiana and Michigan State tarried behind in a tight scrap for third, and Ohio State, last year's champion, was out of it entirely. The Buckeye team was dry-docked by N.C.A.A. punishment for overenthusiastic football recruiting...
...week the Menrtonite elders were studying the reports. Each promised land has drawbacks: Ontario still has the same restrictions that drove the Mennonites out of Canada 35 years ago, and Honduras offers only a steaming jungle terrain. But the Mennonites may have little choice, are sure that Mexico will scrap the Obregón contract. And if that happens, the precise Chihuahua fields will be sold to more compliant folk, and the Mennonites will become wanderers again...
...Berto Lardera, 45, is a self-taught Italian abstractionist who now lives and works in Paris. One of the fast-growing school of sculptor-welders, Lardera got his start in 1944 in war-damaged Florence when he found twisted chunks of iron and scrap in the rubble, and began to use metal instead of stone. He sketches his sculptural idea on paper before cutting up sheets of metal with shears and blowtorch, then welds the pieces together into the finished product. Over the years he has also learned to unite copper and iron, and graft brightly colored mosaics into...