Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...product of poverty and a broken home, a shy, sensitive boy who dreamed of playing halfback for Notre Dame. His heroes were men like Stan Musial and Johnny Lujack, whose special skills at swinging a bat or throwing a ball had rescued them from the steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania...
...potential new leaders are already in the churches, the steel unions, and the present Birmingham movement. The active members have already shown themselves by demonstrating, at the risk of arrest, in the city's streets. What remains now is to make the potential into the real...
...everyone else, including the airframe makers, strongly favor a Mach 3. "We ought to do better," growls North American Aviation's Chairman Lee Atwood, "than just to build another Concorde." Since a Mach 3 jetliner, to resist heat at such speeds, would have to be built of stainless steel and titanium, it would take longer to make and would also require costly engineering for new engines. But its backers argue that a Mach 3 would be a radically new plane that would give the U.S. undisputed future leadership. There is also talk of a compromise Mach...
HIGH FINANCE One is a former junkman who began entrepreneuring at 16 by buying a deserted jail and selling its steel bars at a profit. Another is a courtly Southern tycoon who lives in a mansion in Yemassee, S.C. The third man once conducted his family business, the nation's biggest maker of toothpaste tubes, from a floating desk in the pool of his Greenwich, Conn., home until the pool became too small to contain his world. They make an unlikely trio, but together they have set out to be corporate conquerors in the style of Louis Wolfson...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 16--Tension eased in this racially disturbed steel city today as business life in the downtown district appeared to be returning to normal. Although there were reports of a white boycott, a spot check of some of the downtown department stores showed business was running from good to subnormal...