Word: steel
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...decked vehicular and railroad bridge is the only span across the 3,100-mile length of the Yangtze between Nanking near the coast and Chungking in the western mountains. It is also one of Communist China's key industrial centers, pouring a quarter of the country's steel and producing such important products as machine tools and paper, cement pipe and canned goods...
...worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more than 15 sculptors. All are Canadians except for the U.S.'s Alexander Calder, whose gigantic $200,000 stainless steel Man on the International Nickel Co. plaza greets Expo visitors as they get off the metro at the Place des Nations...
...STEEL. As U.S. Steel goes, so goes the industry, and "The Corporation's" Chairman Roger Blough glumly reported last week that the quarter had gone badly. U.S. Steel showed a 44% decline in quarterly earnings and a 34% drop for the half-year, to $84.6 million. Second-biggest Bethlehem reported a half-year profit drop of 28%, to $66 million. Third-ranked Republic was off 26% for the half-year in earnings, and Inland, Armco, Crucible, Wheeling and Jones & Laughlin came in with similar returns...
...AUTOS. Steel's biggest customers were somewhat better off. General Motors, which suffered a disastrous first quarter as new-car sales slumped, managed a brighter second quarter as springtime customers appeared. Sales rose 1% in the second quarter, to $5.6 billion, and earnings of $522 million were only 4.4% below last year v. a first-quarter profit drop of 34%. For the half-year, profits were $911,567,400, or 20% below last year. Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend reported improved second-quarter sales of $1.6 billion with earnings off 11%, to $54.4 million, from the year...
...that exposed their hardy riders to billowing dust, scorching sunshine and drenching rain. Soon pioneers of the automobile spread a canvas canopy over their heads, and the convertible was born. The Peerless Motor Car Corp. of Cleveland introduced its Cape Folding Top in 1905; the "California top"-a removable steel roof with glazed windows-came along in the '20s to decorate the touring car. For the young at heart, whizzing down a highway in an open convertible became the epitome of driving fun. Plymouth made a big hit with prewar youth by bringing out a pushbutton automatic...