Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when they play the national anthem . . . patriotism has been condemned . . . new-car, prettier-girl, bigger-house sort of pride in country-somewhere along the way we've lost it . . ." While the guitar switches to something sinister and Oriental, the voice continues: "Our enemies . . . they've been putting steel wedges in the cracks in our wall of solidarity. The new idea is don't attack America, wear it down gradually . . . and did you know? It's working." Finally, over a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the narrator proclaims fervently: "Democracy is held together by Fourth...
...results are finishes that are impersonal, materials that are industrial: plastic, Formica, steel, chrome plate, baked enamel, fluorescent lights. One of the artists in the exhibition studied naval architecture, another engineering. Their lingo is strictly post-Einstein; they speak of their art in terms of space warp, time lines, and optic energy...
...mood, which is self-critical as well as critical of the Administration, was perhaps best expressed last week by Bethlehem Steel Chairman Edmund F. Martin. "Government and business must be partners," he told the American Iron and Steel Institute. "To be blunt about it, we in business have not always been ready to accept our responsibility. This has given ambitious men in Government a readymade excuse to move into fields better dealt with by private effort. Worse still, it has reduced our influence in guiding social change...
...prime complaint centers on what Chase Manhattan Chairman George Champion calls "government by guide line." Alcoa President John D. Harper and Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block are just two of the many corporate chiefs who argue that the wage-price guides are unworkable and unfair in that they are applied unevenly and have not prevented wages from soaring in industries as varied as construction and textiles. Though he endorses many of Johnson's other policies, Gaylord A. Freeman Jr., vice chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, criticizes the guideline policy because "it's not good...
Restraints & Spending. U.S. Steel Ad ministrative Vice President R. Heath Larry worries that Johnson is going ";beyond the law" and using Administrative fiat to impose his will not only in the field of wages and prices but also in foreign investments and capital spend ing. Complains Standard Oil (Indiana) Chairman John E. Swearingen: "If you deal with the law, you know the rules and penalties. But what we have now is like a game where they change the rules every quarter...