Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers trudged to their jobs, a heavy fog blanketed the bleak and grimy town. It hung suspended in the stagnant air while local businesses-steel mills, a wire factory, zinc and coke plants-continued to spew waste gases, zinc fumes, coal smoke and fly ash into the lowering darkness. The atmosphere thickened. Grime began to fall out of the smog, covering homes, sidewalks and streets with a black coating in which pedestrians and automobiles left distinct footprints and tire tracks. Within 48 hours, visibility had become so bad that residents had difficulty finding their way home...
...mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...
...clear the air in Chicago, the city has launched a campaign to force local steel plants to adopt costly antipollution techniques, and transportation officials are investigating combination diesel-electric buses that would reduce ex haust fumes. An Illinois legislator has gone so far as to introduce a bill that would limit the use of Illinois coal-which has a high sulphur content-in public buildings...
...advance ranged across just about every sector of the market. In 14 consecutive sessions, gains by individual stocks outnumbered the declines, and many a stock in the course of the week hit a new high, not merely for 1967 but for 1966 as well. Blue chips Du Pont, Bethlehem Steel, Procter & Gamble and even beleaguered A.T. & T. went up; so did glamor stocks Itek, Scientific Data and Ampex. Where there were big drops, there was an obvious reason. American Broadcasting Co. fell 141 points following an announcement in Washington by the Justice Department that it would oppose the merger...
Last week McCormick Place lay in a wild ruin of twisted steel, tumbled concrete and smoking ashes. It was the victim of a blaze that, in total money terms, rivaled the fire...