Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trade Center will have a gross floor area nearly triple that of the Pentagon; the five-storied base for the towers and a roomy plaza cover a 16-acre site that will require the abandonment of several existing streets. Yamasaki has switched from concrete, his favorite medium, to steel because of the sheer height of the towers, and instead of having the weight of the structure carried by the frame and the elevator core, the great steel columns of the exterior walls will support it. The stainless-steel outer ribs are only 22 inches apart, with glass between, giving...
...expected from Congress this year. Nonetheless, U.S. labor unions are dead earnest about curbing overtime on their own. In Detroit, proposals to curtail overtime will be one of the key issues that Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers will take up at the bargaining table this year. The steel industry's labor-management human relations committee is already grappling with the question, and the Rubber Workers, the Cement Masons, the Machinists and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers are among the many other unions strongly opposed to any more than a bare amount of overtime...
...Impetus. Labor Secretary Wirtz insists that hiring new employees instead of working old ones overtime would have increased employment by more than 900,000 last year, but industry hotly disputes this. In the steel industry, most overtime is worked when employees fail to show up for shifts, and no new hiring would be feasible in such cases. The auto industry has dragged in every available trained worker to keep up with the sales race, and Detroit companies have even gone to South Bend to recruit laid-off Studebaker workers. But there is no time to train green hands; automen need...
...would even out costs. But changing the regular payment for overtime from time and a half to double time would cost industry $46 million extra a week, and, with today's rapidly advancing technology, would not automatically lead to more hirings. "In the long run," warns Inland Steel Vice President William Caples, "anything that becomes expensive we eliminate-we engineer it out." The risk is that such penalties might provide the impetus for new breakthroughs in automation that would make unemployment even worse...
...passengers, depending on seating arrangements, and attain a speed of Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) v. a Mach 2.2 top speed for the Concorde. To withstand the heat generated by the higher speed, the U.S. supersonics will be built of titanium and stainless steel...