Word: steel
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...Uganda, an "educational cruise liner" that normally carries 900 or more students around the Baltic and the Mediterranean, needed only modest modifications to be transformed into a floating 1,000-bed hospital. At a British navy dockyard in Gibraltar, 300 workers fitted the ship's stern with prefabricated steel helicopter pads. A smoking room and veranda were converted into operating theaters; a dance hall was turned into a 100-bed ward. Within a week, the Uganda was on its way to the South Atlantic, the strains of Rule Britannia blaring from its loudspeaker system. Similarly, the Canberra was outfitted...
Unemployment in America is taking on new and startling dimensions. No longer are the bulk of layoffs confined to just autos and housing, which have been in a three-year slump. Unemployment has spread to textiles, pulp and paper, steel, oil drilling and refining, mining and chemicals. Along with union members and the semiskilled, white-collar workers are losing their jobs. Edward Lieberman, 28, was shocked when he could not find work after being laid off from his $20,000-a-year job as a computer-software salesman in Los Angeles. Said he: "I've discovered that I need...
Computerized inventory control has proved especially helpful to heavy industries like steelmaking. More than simply keeping track of large stockpiles of raw materials, such as iron ore and coking coal, steel firms also have to make sure that stocks of finished goods, ranging from rolled steel to ingots, sheet metal, cable and wire, are neither too large nor too small for projected demand. Says Albert E. Martz, a general manager for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh (1981 sales: $4.7 billion): "As a result of higher interest rates, we are trying to run leaner and operate closer to the bone...
Faster than a hungry agent! More identifiable in cape than collar! Now able to deliver long sermons in a single breath! Look! Up in the pulpit! It's a man! It's a priest! It's Christopher Reeve not playing Superman! In Monsignor, the Man of Steel quick-changes to become a man of the cloth. Reeve, 29, plays an Irish Catholic priest from New York's Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily...
...torch fanned by the world's idealists while one avuncular pipe smoker in Moscow was wielding it as a genocidal bludgeon. Certainly Stalin was not typecast as a satanic maniac. Hitler was, and his regime paraded itself as a national theater of cruelty. The black leather and stainless steel, the epileptic rhetoric-these were the props and syntax of a most histrionic villainy. At stage center was a master psychotic, whose depths and demons the world still wants to decipher. What actor has played Stalin? What actor would resist the chance to play Hitler...