Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAINT-SAENS: CONCERTOS NOS. 2 AND 4 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Columbia). The 31-year-old French pianist Philippe Entremont tosses off both virtuoso works with steel-fingered bravura. Saint-Saens' flashy climaxes are mostly rhetoric, but as Entremont plays them they are satisfying to the ear; in the lyrical passages, he is able to draw a fine melodic line between melancholy and pathos. The brilliant splashes of orchestral color are furnished by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting...
...come the President gets so upset at the increase of a few dollars a ton for steel, but when hamburger goes up $200 a ton [March 18], we hear no word except that there are no signs of inflation...
...mechanical claw, Alvin was supposed to slip a cable around the bomb so that it could be towed by surface ship up the incline to a plateau 2,000 ft. below the sea's surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact and constituted no radiation danger, it was to be winched aboard the U.S.S. Hoist. By special order of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the bomb was to be shown to members...
Imported Mountaineers. To staff its mills in Chicago and Gary, where the labor market is at its tightest, U.S. Steel announced last week that it would try to recruit 1,000 workers in Pittsburgh. According to San Francisco's Ampex, the necessity of looking farther afield for technicians has increased its recruiting costs from $3,000 to nearly...
Workers, even for unskilled jobs, are scarce. Detroit automakers have imported unemployed mountaineers from Appalachia to sweep floors at $3 an hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...