Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Industry is in even worse shape. In Anshan, which normally produces half of China's 12 million tons of steel a year, several blast furnaces are reported to have been destroyed by recent rioting. There have been consistent reports of trouble in coal mines and of shortages of coal, and a full-scale battle was reported in August at China's biggest oil center, at Teaching in Manchuria. "Demons and monsters," Peking's People's Daily stormed a few weeks ago, "deliberately incite one group of the working masses to oppose another and upset the order...
...chisel in favor of the welding torch, and Vulcan's forge for a sheet-metal fabrication shop. This is the era, says William Seitz, organizer of the U.S. show at the São Paulo Bienal, of "sculptors without studios-sculptors who have their drawings turned into steel at a factory...
...great pride to the district's record of not adding a drop of pollution in recent years to Lake Michigan, but ten blocks above the district's northern border sits a treatment plant which daily dumps half-cleaned sewage into the lake. And in Gary, Indiana the huge U.S. Steel plant continues to empty its industrial wastes. U.S. Steel has been ordered to stop by the end of 1968, but Bacon doesn't think the date can stand up in court. Last summer, millions of dead alewives mysteriously washed up on the shores of Lake Michigan, and Bacon admits that...
...most dramatic portion of the flechette's travels is yet to come. As it emerges from its target in a shower of hot gases and molten steel, the hot uranium again comes in contact with air. Without its ablative coating to protect it, it oxidizes explosively, producing overpressures that on a large scale could damage a tank or bunker...
Tiny TV. Singleton's philosophy at Teledyne has been anything but conservative. "A steel company might think that it is competing with other steel companies," he says, "but we are competing with all other companies." Teledyne started with semiconductors and integrated circuits, swiftly expanded through both internal growth and acquisitions into the most sophisticated electronics equipment and systems. Its 25,000 employees are at work on projects ranging from memas (tiny combinations of integrated circuits that promise TV sets containing only picture tube, control knobs and a mema) to a computerized control and navigation system that would allow automatic...