Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week he will test that margin by taking the most controversial step of his administration so far - publication of plans to nationalize most of Britain's steel industry. Nothing in the Labor Party's platform has aroused so much fierce antagonism in Britain, for steel nationalization is about the last vestige of the old doctrinaire socialism that millions of Britons would like to forget...
...Labor M.P.s have warned Wilson they will not support him, and the ten Liberals in the House of Commons have threatened to vote against Wilson on the steel issue. These defections could leave Wilson with a majority of one, or provoke the national election that is widely rumored for June, or next October at the latest...
...Steel Ahead. It was evident last week that Harold Wilson was certainly an odd sort of socialist, one able to beguile a French autocrat, a German burgher and a millionaire Texan. Actually Wilson is more Methodist than Marxist, and even if he wanted to nationalize everything in sight, he would be hard put to find many sizable industries that the British government does not already have a hand in. It is a fact of British life that after 13 years of Conservative rule, one of every four houses in the country is owned by public authorities, 90% of British students...
...economy of Birmingham, Alabama, The Magic City, depends largely on the throbbing steel mills which ring its borders. While whites may hold any job and earn at any wage level, Negroes in the city are caught in a viscious circle of poverty; discriminatory employment practices prevent them from rising to even the most basic managerial positions. Not only does such discrimination strangle the economy of the Negro community, but it causes imbalance in education and housing and drives many of the community's more talented members away in search of better jobs...
...President may be withholding the appointments to use as leverage on management and labor to prevent a national steel walkout. But even if his reasons are not so misplaced, his tardiness only frustrates the implementation of needed legislation protecting a vital civil right...