Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society is more concerned with eliminating motorcycles than with eliminating the real cause of the problem, the Average Joe Driver, who never sees anything smaller than a Chrysler and blithely turns left in front of motorcycles with a devil-may-care attitude engendered by the two tons of steel between him and that 300-lb. bike...
Trains still run underground into Pennsylvania Station, but the station itself has disappeared, while up above, the steel skeleton for a new $75 million Madison Square Garden (third structure to bear the name), a 29-story hotel and office building is going up. On Madison Avenue, the 94th Street Armory, once home for the socialite Squadron A, is crumbling under the siege of wreckers to make way for an integrated junior high school; while at 74th Street, Architect Marcel Breuer's new Whitney Museum, with its massive cantilevers and moat, is readying for its September debut. Across Central Park...
...months of hassling over tax terms, Mayor John Lindsay and the Port of New York Authority came to terms, gave the green light to the construction of the $525 million World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Main feature of the Minoru Yamasaki-designed 16-acre complex: twin stainless-steel towers, each 110 stories tall, or 100 ft. taller than the Empire State Building, which since 1931 has retained the proud title "Tallest Building in the World...
...voted down even that hefty hike. The fact was that Johnson himself had ignored the guideposts-withal his rationale about airline "productivity"-and now the doors were wide open to above-the-line moves by both labor and management in all industries. That point was soon proved when the steel industry last week imposed major price increases, and the Johnson Administration could not in conscience do anything except complain...
Embroiled as he was with the trade unions, dissidents in his own party and the Opposition over his controversial plans to rescue the pound, Wilson deliberately chose to make things hotter by scheduling a debate on Labor's controversial bill to renationalize Britain's major privately owned steel companies. He apparently reckoned that the steel-nationalization issue-one of the Labor Party's surviving oldtime doctrinaire goals-would unite his divided party. But Veteran Labor M.P. George Strauss, who in 1948 piloted the Labor Government's original steel-nationalization bill through Commons, was critical...