Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students to build a new school. The first two months our spirits were high, the weather was relatively cool, and there was almost no visible evidence of our labor. We built a gravel road, dug holes in the ground for building supports, and made the building supports out of steel rods and steel rings...
...bill will be introduced to restore public ownership and control of the main part of the steel industry," read Queen Elizabeth in leisurely tones. That signaled Wilson's determination to forge ahead with Labor's main ideological plank: renationalization of Britain's 14 major steel companies. Already suffering from overproduction and corroded prices, the British steel industry could best be helped by private mergers and public investment aimed at modernization. The industry is likely to become, if anything, even less efficient under nationalization. Wilson thus gave in to his party's left and showed that...
...police interrogation lasting as long as three days. The Supreme Court did not even attack the use of coerced confession in state courts until the 1936 case of Brown v. Mississippi, when it voided the "voluntary" murder confessions of three Negroes who had talked only after being beaten with steel-studded belts for five days...
...slim, tense 24-year-old makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, takes the tempo slowly, deliberately. Horowitz's fingers are like coiled springs of Russian steel; they tear with trip-hammer speed and force across the keys, and in the last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best...
...Diebold shareholders and the Federal Trade Commission approve, as seems likely, the merger should be suitably synergistic. Diebold* will substantially lift Litton's most rapidly rising group-business equipment-which has been built by Litton's acquisition of such companies as Monroe Calculating, Cole Steel Equipment and Royal McBee...