Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's giant banking, commercial and industrial corporations. In its expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...
...wait on white customers in Johannesburg department stores, serve as typists, cashiers and bookkeepers for commercial firms, work beside whites at the lathes in auto plants and steel mills. The nation's gold mines are negotiating with the white miners' union for permission to put blacks into 2,000 skilled jobs that are now vacant. Africans have already taken over more than 10,000 traditionally white jobs on the government railroads, and are rapidly replacing whites behind the wheels of heavy trucks...
Recognition came late for Sculptor David Smith, and neither his manner, often truculent, nor his medium - gigantic welded iron and steel objects -did much to hasten his fame. Awarded a $1,000 prize at the 1961 Carnegie International, he refused the money, suggested that it be used by the museum to buy some art. "Sculpture has been a whore for many ages," he would...
Heavy industry-especially drop forging, steel pouring, metal cutting, riveting, drilling, air blasting, sawing and highspeed paper shredding-has deafened countless people over the years, but nothing much was done about it until 1948, when the New York Court of Appeals awarded $1,661.25 in compensation to a partially deafened drop-forge worker. As a result, most companies engaged in noisy work have started noise-abatement measures and regular tests of workers' hearing. Three states-California, Oregon and Washington-have legal limits to industrial noise; in California, for instance, ear protection must be issued if the noise level reaches...
...improvements, according to a Coal and Steel Community report leaked last week, the five-year outlook for European steel is poor. European steelmen must modernize to stay in business, but by modernizing they add to overcapacity...