Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dating Year 1 from Dec. 2, 1942, when the first controlled atomic chain reaction was achieved by Enrico Fermi and his associates in the celebrated squash court beneath the grandstand of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 from a steel tower at Alamagordo...
...Connecticut hilltop five miles northwest of Hartford, there rose an office building of such beauty that the American Institute of Architects labeled it one of the "Ten Buildings in America's future." Made of steel, glass and aluminum, the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. head quarters combined the taut discipline of Mies van der Robe's masterpieces with grace notes-inner courtyards, reflecting pools, broad promenades-as old as the most ancient palaces. Now, perhaps to their dismay, the officers and employees of Connecticut General can look out their windows and see on a neighboring knoll...
...Dome. Even the dousing fluid will be safely confined, for the whole works will be housed in a vast domed vessel 182 ft. high and 165 ft. in diameter, with inner walls made of two layers of steel one-quarter inch thick separated by 2 ft. of porous concrete. Pumps will draw from the concrete any radioactive gas that seeps into it. And outside all this will be 5½ ft. of concrete strongly reinforced with a network of steel bars. The great dome will be strong enough, say Con Ed engineers, to hold the most violent explosion that could...
Sixth Sense. Flick rode high under the Nazis, with enough holdings in coal and steel to make him a reichsmark billionaire. During his imprisonment, 75% of his wealth was confiscated, and after his release Allied authorities forced him to sell the remainder of his coal interests. At first this seemed a bitter blow, but when the coal industry hit a depression in 1958 Flick turned out to be set with plenty of cash. With an unerring sixth sense for economic trends, he resisted advice to concentrate all he had in steel, decided that most growth would be in autos, chemicals...
...years after his release from Landsberg prison, where he served five years of a seven-year term for using Nazi slave labor in his factories, Flick once again heads Germany's biggest and most powerful industrial empire. He controls an interlocking maze of 156 companies in autos, steel, chemicals and paper whose annual sales total is more than $2 billion -nearly twice that of the Krupp empire. His personal wealth has been set by tax collectors at $400 million, which makes him Germany's wealthiest...