Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steel v. Death...
...sorry for them because they dimly remembered the powerful joy that had been theirs. They wanted so much to experience it again. But that joy was not to be found on the trampled field or within the steel scoreboard--and certainly not in the dumb, sexless eye of television. The joy was gone, locked into the past, into that time of great achievement when we were all heroes in raucous love...
...families, which have been saving 70 of each dollar, begin to spend some of what they have squirreled away. "As far as we're concerned," says Walgreen Drug Chairman Charles R. Walgreen Jr., "the public is on a buying spree." Adds Chairman Edward Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel: "We're in an inflationary period now, and it's very serious...
Phenomenal Popularity. Where it went is into just about everything that is manufactured or grown. In various forms, including sulfuric acid, the nation's most widely used chemical, sulfur is used for such chores as tanning leather, cleaning steel, pigmenting paint, making plastic and paper. Mostly, the shortage is the result of sulfur's phenomenal popularity down on the farm. Its use as a fertilizer ingredient has doubled since 1961, and agricultural needs now command nearly half of total production...
...most significant addition was Sticht, who worked his way through Grove City (Pa.) College as a steel-mill laborer and campus odd-jobber. Sticht got his management experience at TWA and Campbell's, where he was head of the international division when the Laz ari-as Cincinnatians call the merchandising family-persuaded him to try his skills at retailing...