Word: smelter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Francis Adams Cherry, 56, a former Arkansas Governor (1953-55), chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who led the probe of the once powerful International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, in 1961 found it Communist-infiltrated; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Tenn., while a high school student of 15, alternated three-month stints of work and study to graduate as an electrical engineer from the University of Tennessee. For the next 18 years, Harper moved slowly up through the ranks; then his strong performance as works manager of an aluminum smelter at Rockdale, Texas, propelled him to Alcoa's Pittsburgh headquarters in 1955. Eight years later, he was elected president, a job that ROW pays him $155,000 a year. An incessant telephone salesman who keeps his desk clean of paperwork, Harper spends nearly half his time on flying trips...
...Communists to register as an organization, it can still persecute individuals whom it believes are party members. Furthermore it is free to take action against "front" groups and "infiltrated" organizations. Already the SACB has ordered two dozen such groups to register, including the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Electrical Workers...
...machinery, autos and paper. The squeeze shows up not only in rising overtime in these industries but in slower delivery of key items and in the activation of plants that were formerly headed for the scrap heap. Aluminum capacity is so tight that Kaiser Aluminum plans to reopen a smelter in Tacoma that it shut down six years ago. U.S. Steel has just reopened a 47-year-old mill in Gary, Ind., to cope with the demand for heavy plate. A fifth of the nation's basic steel capacity is still idle, but bottlenecks are developing in the rolling...
...happens with increasing frequency, Kennedy was asked a lot of silly questions-and did not improve much on them in his answers. Inevitably Sarah McClendon, who is becoming television's most monumental bore, got her chance, rang in with a rambling query about an obscure Texas lead smelter that few people a quarter-mile outside of El Paso had ever heard...