Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buster Browns. The President also last week flew to St. Louis to open that city's celebration of its 200th birthday. From the airport he moved in a heavily guarded motorcade to the Mississippi river front to view a partially completed $10 million, 630-ft.-high steel arch that is rising in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, a National Park Service project...
...labor reform act in 1959, when he entered the West Virginia primary in 1960, when he debated Lyndon Johnson at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles with no preparation, when he took the blame completely on himself for the failure at the Bay of Pigs, when he fought the steel companies, when he stood...
Host of Hidalgos. Leaving no hidalgo unturned, Dutch newspapers variously identified him as Juan Bosco Alvear, son of a rich winegrowing family, who announced that he had "never even met her"; Bilbao's Santiago Ybarra, a steel tycoon, who protested: "I have a girl friend"; dashing young Fernando Elza-buru, who had actually visited The Netherlands and met Irene. Or could her fiance be Prince Alfonso de Borbon, a nephew of Don Juan, the pretender to the Spanish throne? Not likely, said Alfonso, as he flew off to an athletic rally in Czechoslovakia...
...Most of the once ailing railroads made healthy profits, and the airlines, which only two years ago were in a financial tailspin, climbed to new heights of profit. TWA turned a $5,700,000 loss in 1962 into record earnings of $19.7 million last year. Many of the smaller steel companies nearly doubled their earnings in 1963, and giant U.S. Steel, now in the throes of a major reorganization, achieved its highest profit -$202 million-in three years...
THEY'VE been growing their own chairmen there for years," said a steelman last week after Bethlehem Steel Chairman Arthur B. Homer, 67, stepped down in favor of Vice-Chairman Edmund Fible Martin, 61. Husky (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) Ed Martin is as homegrown as Homer, who spent nearly half a century with the company. Chicago-born, Martin graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology at 19, immediately became a Bethlehem management trainee. From sweeping floors, he advanced to become manager of the company's Lackawanna plant and successively president and vice-chairman. Even as vice-chairman...