Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IMPORT CURBS on Japanese stainless-steel flatware were ordered by President Eisenhower to protect U.S. producers. Japanese now account for 90% of all imports. New restrictions are aimed at cutting flatware imports from Japan to 5,750,000 dozen pieces; duties of 60% to 67^½% will be imposed on all imports in excess of that total...
...Valkyrie is revolutionary, from its stainless steel skin (withstanding 600° temperatures) to its configuration (vast delta wings aft; short, duck-winged "canard" control surfaces in the nose...
David Smith, 53, is the best of the living "ironmongers." His raw, openwork constructions of iron, silver and stainless steel stem from Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
...Japanese emphasis on precision and heavy industrial products? Much of it stems from pressure by U.S. producers, who have forced Japan to clamp quotas on its lighter, less complex exports, e.g., textiles, tuna, stainless steel flatware, umbrella frames. The insular Japanese live or die by trade. Particularly must they export to the U.S.; last year their imports from the U.S. ran 55% ahead of their exports. Thus they have decided that if the U.S. tightens one market, the way to compete is simply to turn to another...
Where are we going? "On to the stainless steel cities of the future!" cried the young man, oblivious to the professor's expression of horrified pity...