Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what happened at Monza midway through the 1961 season, when the Ferrari of Germany's flamboyant Wolfgang von Trips swerved suddenly, with Jimmy's Lotus directly behind. For one horrible instant, the two cars touched at 150 m.p.h. The Ferrari hurtled up an embankment, ricocheted off a steel guardrail, sheared through a wire fence, and spun end over end, back onto the track. Clark leaped out of his crumpled Lotus and pushed Trips's car off the road. There was nothing he could do for Trips-or for 17 spectators who had been leaning on the fence...
...classics (Warsaw Concerto, Nutcracker Suite), as well as his own compositions (Snowfall), swung high in the big-band era from 1939 to 1947, thereafter maintained a respectable success at college proms and the few remaining big-time dance halls, such as Manhattan's Roseland, Atlantic City's Steel Pier; of a heart attack; in Caldwell...
...been largely bypassed and ignored by the world beyond. Its main industry is duck hunting, its greatest claim to fame the burial site of the Potawatomi chief, Senachwine. Hennepin may soon long for the simple days. The surveyors are setting down the boundaries of a huge new $600 million steel mill that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. will begin building next year on 6,000 acres of Hennepin land...
Flowing Westward. Not since U.S. Steel decided in 1905 to put a plant on the hunk of Lake Michigan sand that is now Gary, Ind., has a private project had such opportunity to change an entire area. The mill will start off employing 2,500 people in a plant for finishing rolled steel shipped from the East. Jones & Laughlin hopes that the plant will eventually be completely integrated from blast furnaces on up, expects it to generate satellite manufacturing industries to use its steel. Says Jones & Laughlin Chairman Charles M. Beeghly: "We are talking about the largest single development...
Anxious to follow the westward flow of industry and begin tapping the booming Chicago market, Jones & Laughlin, the nation's sixth largest steel producer, started looking over possible Midwestern sites last summer. Its conditions: plentiful water, a youthful labor supply in the area, easy rail access and cheap land. With the aid of Fantus Co., the international plant-location experts, they considered half a dozen possible sites, finally settled on Hennepin as the one best meeting the requirements...