Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week at Ravenswood, W. Va., the valley's biggest industrial project to date was going into production. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., No. 3 U.S. producer, rolled the first light-gauge sheet aluminum at one of the world's biggest smelters and mills, a $230 million giant that it hopes will soon push Kaiser past Reynolds Metals into the industry's No. 2 spot. For Ravenswood, like dozens of other towns along the river, the future is now wide open...
Steel stocks, which have helped lead the market up for the past two months, turned about last week and led it down again. All major steel issues sagged badly, from Armco's slide of 3! points to Youngstown Sheet & Tube's dip of gf. The main reason was a sudden pessimism, largely touched off by a gloomy steel report front-paged in the Wall Street Journal, and sent over the Dow-Jones ticker, which said that demand is disappointing and inventories are building up too fast. Steelmen thought the report was far too pessimistic...
Main features to break the monotony are glass corridors and a three-story, sheet-glass grand entrance for protocol occasions. The roof will be reinforced for helicopter landing; the basement will house an 800-car garage. Inside, the building freezes the State Department's pyramidal hierarchy in concrete, with the Secretary's office, surrounded by his immediate aides on the seventh floor, lesser departments pushed lower and lower toward the first. Windows are rationed on prestige basis. To pump around the lifeblood of memorandums there are miles of pneumatic tubing...
Though ODM's decision sorely disappointed steelmakers, there were few cries of real alarm. Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. announced that they would review expansion plans; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. said that it would be forced to reappraise plans for a new $250 million mill planned for Houston. But most steelmen had already decided that they have to expand one way or another to meet their growing markets. Republic Steel Corp. will still continue with its $187 million expansion program; so will Pittsburgh Steel Co., National Steel Corp., Armco Steel Corp. and Inland Steel...
...mound under a sheet, a square of pale Mortal flesh incised in a seeping line, Spreading its lips for pretty butchery...