Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First warning of trouble to come was the muffled clomp of steel biting into earth as entrenching tools signaled the fact that the enemy was digging in near the camp's wire. Then a white phosphorus mortar shell exploded inside A Shau, and the valley night erupted in recoilless cannon and machine-gun fire, the flash of shells and burning buildings. All night long the enemy poured fire into the compound. Daylight brought dive bombers to the aid of the besieged defenders, though the clouds hung so low that enemy antiaircraft guns were often firing down on allied planes...
Rumania has been buying from a horde of hungry Westerners. The West German firm of Gutehoffnungshütte won a $20 million share in building the mammoth Galati Steel Mill at the Rumanian end of the Danube-and when the deal was consummated, at a candle-light-cum-gypsy-violin blowout in Bucharest, the Rumanian Deputy Minister for Heavy Industry, Constantin Nācutā, executed a neat hora on the tabletop. Demag and Siemens, Krupp and M.A.N. all add to a German investment in Rumania that exceeds $50 million. Italy's Orlandi is building...
Though producers set output records last year, demand is now running well ahead of supply as a result of continuing economic expansion. Aside from copper, the pinch is tightest in the strengthening and rust-resisting metals used to make alloy steels. Detroit is consuming more chrome steel for trim. A surge in orders for machine tools has boosted demand for tungsten steel used in cutting edges. Molybdenum, one of the prime hardening metals, is so scarce that steelmakers frequently are forced to buy on a grey market, where they pay speculators double or triple the going price...
Homestake not only reopened but also prospered by introducing cost-cutting technical innovations. Among them: automated hoisting equipment; TV monitoring and short-wave communications; tungsten carbide bits, used to drill holes for explosives, that last for 450 ft. of drilling v. 16 in. for the old steel bits, and have doubled each miner's productivity. It takes an average three tons of ore to produce a single ounce of gold, but Homestake literally wrings out every ounce. The company salvages $300,000 worth of gold a year by such thrifty measures as washing workers' clothes and hands, vacuuming...
...Gaulle's aim of wooing Eastern Europe. France has been striving to oust EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, a persistent foe of De Gaulle's narrow nationalist design for Europe. With the present nine-man EEC commission shortly due to be consolidated with the Coal and Steel Community and Euratom into a single 14-man executive body, the other five nations have concocted a deal to keep Hallstein on the job two years more. After that, the commission presidency would rotate as the French demand, allowing West German Hallstein to retire gracefully...