Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with good reason. It was his 21st birthday, next day was the holiday and also the opening of the Utah fishing season. He was too eager. As he tried to pass a car on a curve near the town of Glendale, Utah, a truck carrying 27 tons of steel headed straight at him. The big truck smashed Brown's truck against a rocky hill. Brown, his wife Sandra, 23, his daughters Robin, 4, and Michelle, 4 months, his brother-in-law David Jepsen, 19, all died. Only his third daughter, Sammie Kay, 1½, survived...
...most of the load is still being carried by the pioneers of corporate aid, such as Ford, U.S. Steel, General Motors. And even $200 million was a relative drop in the bucket. Last year...
...danger of evaporation or explosion. Linde and Air Products both have developed liquid-nitrogen tanks that keep food trucks cold even when doors are endlessly opened and closed. Linde is using nine miles of pipeline to pump oxygen and nitrogen along the Houston Ship Channel to Humble Oil, Sheffield Steel and other users; Air Reduction has opened a 22-mile nitrogen pipeline along the Delaware River to service such customers as Du Pont, SunOlin and Shell Chemical...
...facing the new economy. Some of the more cautious worry that the stock market is becoming overpriced again, after one of the sharpest rises in its history; they believe, as J. P. Morgan put it, that the market "is destined to fluctuate." Others wonder how much the demand for steel will decline should the possibility of a strike evaporate, how long customers will continue to spend so freely, and how well the 1964 cars will go over. And bankers fret about how long the dollar can maintain its integrity in world markets with the nation's balance-of-payments...
...pace until 1975, but Khrushchev's COMECON plans would condemn Rumania to mostly farming and supplying raw materials to others. Result: Rumania insists on the "right of every nation to develop and plan its economy in accordance with its own national interests." When Russia dallied in delivering a steel mill that the Rumanians had ordered (against COMECON plans), the Rumanians huffed off to buy it from an Anglo-French consortium for $39 million. They have also sent a trade mission to the West to drum up more business with the capitalists...