Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distance jumping, to see how far I could go from one spot to another, using the pole to boost me along. Then my father built me a regular pit out of sand, and I was hooked." In high school, Hansen jumped 13 ft. 6 in. with a Swedish steel pole, went on to 14 ft. in his sophomore year at Rice University. After that he joined the parade to the catapult-like fiber glass pole and ran into trouble. "It took me forever to get used to it," he says. "I didn't really learn to bend the pole...
...patent infringements. Though its late-model Univac IIIs and 1004s are rated among the best computers in the field, Sperry's Univac division trails in some key areas; General Electric, for example, is well ahead in the promising "process control" computers that can run pipeline systems or steel mills. Under Rader, Univac had made great progress toward closing the gaps, and thus his move to G.E. is a double blow...
...were funneling money into Conservative Party coffers. For their part, the Tories were trying to force Labor to discuss details of its plans for nationalization, which Harold Wilson's men have been deliberately vague about; in the end, Deputy Leader George Brown repeated an earlier pledge to bring steel, truck transport and much urban land under government ownership or control...
...Steelmen say that they are penalized by bigness. Theirs is the only truly national steel company, with plants stretching westward to Pittsburg, Calif., and it often cannot change prices or products as rapidly as smaller but more profitable regional companies. At the same time, the corporation is among those most hurt by cut-price imports from Japan and Europe, for it is a major producer of the products most heavily imported-bars, wires, pipes. Many U.S. Steelmen also complain that Government harassment prevents them from expanding their markets or raising prices as high as they would like. The Government...
Some doors are still shut. But such formerly "tight" fields as banking, brokerage, steel and the auto industry are opening wider. Negro recruits are increasingly welcome at airlines, retail stores and food, petroleum, aerospace and electrical-equipment companies...