Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news from companies that supply Chrysler and other automakers, however, remained gloomy. With steel industry plants running at only 50% of capacity, Armco, the fifth largest American producer, lost $57.4 million, and National Steel, the sixth largest, lost $49.9 million. Aluminum sales were also depressed, and Reynolds Metals saw profits tumble 44% to $25.5 million...
...more than a generation after it won independence from Britain in 1947, India steadfastly tried to become self-sufficient in virtually everything from steel to grain. Now, however, the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has departed from that policy and begun the careful wooing of foreign investment. Says a highly placed New Delhi official: "The old approach of doing everything ourselves has clearly failed to work...
...arid Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...
Owner Philip Lovell was a health columnist, an exponent of water cures, open-air sleeping and vegetarianism. Neutra, more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches...
...landscapes of his projects. The Nesbitt House in Los Angeles (1942), for instance, has a decidedly rustic ambience. The vigorous textures of rough brick and redwood board and batten predominate. The hard, angular lines of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs (1946) deliberately contrast with nature. The spindly steel columns, fragile-looking window walls and beams that poke freely into the air are a reinterpretation of classic Japanese architecture...