Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like nearly 1,700 ft., is concrete poured over short, cylindrical shell forms and troweled by hand. A second building is basically an airy vault-a 200-ft. structure with two rows of nine columns running along each side. Because of the constant salt spray in the air, a steel building would have wasted a fortune in maintenance, and, in any case, this structure in concrete costs about 20% less. But, as always, Candela will pronounce it good only if it works. "It will not be me but Alcoa that decides if it is good...
...Some people said it couldn't be done," said United Steelworkers President David McDonald, "but we've done it." "A significant development in the history of collective bargaining," agreed R. Conrad Cooper, a U.S. Steel vice president and the industry's chief negotiator. The White House passed on word that President Kennedy was "gratified...
...unexpected, but that did not dampen its revolutionary impact. After 51 months of meetings, labor and management agreed on a 13-week paid sabbatical vacation once every five years (on a rotating basis) for all hourly workers in the top half of the seniority ranks at each steel company. In all of U.S. industry, only the canmakers have even a roughly similar agreement, and Dave McDonald has been trying to get one from the steelmakers for seven years...
...three-month paid holiday as one answer to automation. McDonald figures that senior employees going on long vacations will create up to 25,000 new jobs for people who will have to fill in for them. Even at that, the union will not wholly offset job losses in the steel industry. Steel is automating so fast that in March, with 25,000 fewer workers, it turned out nearly a million more tons of steel than it did last year...
...skyline of Manhattan-or of any other metropolis-would be completely different were it not for the Otis Elevator Co. Founder Elisha Graves Otis made the first safe and practical elevator in the middle of the 19th century. When steel beams and hanging walls made skyscrapers structurally possible, it was the availability of the elevator that made such heights practical. In the present worldwide boom in high-rise buildings, 110-year-old Otis is thriving as never before. Operating in all 50 states and in 43 countries, the company last year captured a dominant 40% of the world...