Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time impose "a lower ceiling on the number of men that can be supported in the South." The North Vietnamese will not find it easy to replace the wrecked facilities, McNamara pointed out, since "they have only a limited rebuilding capability"; the repairs call for "stocks and materials-large steel plates, for example-which are in very, very short supply in North Viet...
...recent speech before the American Society of International Law, Ball traced the "persistent rivalry among the individual nation-states of Europe" through three centuries of war, then recapitulated the U.S.-inspired moves toward Western European and Atlantic unity since World War II: the Schuman Plan and the Coal and Steel Community, the European Defense Community and NATO, the Treaty of Rome and the Common Market. "This then," he said, "was the prospect in the early part of the 1960s-a Europe making massive strides toward unity with the strong prospect that its geographical boundaries would be expanded to include...
While British wages went up 9% last year, productivity has increased only 1 %. That was far short of the government's goal of 3.8% or the U.S.'s increase of 2.8% in 1965. Three British steelworkers are needed to produce the steel that one U.S. worker turns out. The British auto industry, 15% overstaffed, turns out 5.2 cars per worker a year compared with 5.6 per worker in Germany and eleven per worker in the U.S. Oxford University's Allan Flanders, an industrial-relations expert, estimates that industry is 40% overstaffed. Sir Maurice Laing, president...
...Milan industrialists responsible for Italy's post-World War II economic boom, best known for his Lambrettas, the low-cost scooter that in the 1950s helped put every paisano in the driver's seat, but which were only a small part of his $500 million empire producing steel tubing, heavy machinery, steel furnaces (including a recently completed $400 million steel mill in Venezuela) and English Austins and Mini-Minors with zippy Latin bodies; of a heart attack; in Milan...
...Rome firm of Italconsult is participating in a $75 million bridge-and-viaduct job in Argentina. One of the Italians' specialties is designing long, lightweight bridges built with less concrete and steel than most spans...