Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decreed Congress closed and ordered troops into Brasilia. By the hundreds, they swarmed into the capital's radio stations and newspaper plants, cut off telephone and cable circuits to the rest of the country, raised a wall of bayonets around the airport and the sleekly modern saucers of steel and glass that house Congress. The Deputies saw the futility of fighting on, and quietly cleared out of the building as ordered...
...prosaic object: the bathtub," proclaimed Illyes. "One part of humanity bathed and the other did not, and these two categories may not sleep in the same bed or eat at the same table." And things got worse, said the poet, when automobiles came along-"those monsters, those separators, little steel cages, the driver sealed in glacial indifference." Alas, the reasonably well-bathed poets listened and then drove off in little steel cages...
...borrowing. The length of the work week, new hiring by industry, business inventories and industrial production all showed a downtrend. Though the nation's factories hummed at 93% of capacity, that rate was no higher than it had been at the start of the year. Lagging demand for steel, the economy's most basic ingredient, last week prompted giant U.S. Steel Corp. to announce plans to close its National Works near Pittsburgh. "Across the board," said Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block, "the pace of new orders is not up to where we thought it would...
...European Coal and Steel Community, the first of the grand international enterprises undertaken by Western Europe after World War II, formed the nucleus of the Common Market, and ever since has been considered a model for economic development. The Community promoted steel and coal production, cut tariffs, achieved fair pricing, and took much of the malice out of Franco-German industrial rivalry. Now, however, just when it should be congratulating itself on its long-term success, the Community seems to be falling into disarray...
...organization's very reason for existence is to solve coal and steel problems for Western Europe as a whole. Yet the Community's Italian president, Dino del Bo, who reportedly has threatened to resign, says that "since June we have watched a development of replacing a community plan with dangerous and unacceptable national plans...