Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Block, chairman of the Inland Steel Co. from 1959 to 1967, was a member of the War Production Board's steel division...
...stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Lucrezia Borgia. Her wish was her destiny and her doom. Fate and a will of steel cast her as the avatar of all these women, and when she died her grieving lover was the nation...
...CONTEMPORARY artists share the classical bias that warfare is noble. Slaughterhouse Five. Why Are We In Vietnam?, Apocalypse Now--the realization is dawning that saturation bombing means blowing up every village in a province designated "strategic" by a Pentagon flunkie, and that anti-personnel devices are grenades filled with steel pins designed expressly to rip humans apart. No Thermopylae for us not even any Chateaux Thierry. We read about My Lai when we were nine or ten, and it will take more than the Iranian crisis to make us forget that the ditches in that small Asian town were filled...
...Soviet plan calls for the construction of either two small pipelines or one single line of high-tensile steel pipe perhaps 5 ft. in diameter. Some 40 large compressors will be required to pump the gas from the wellheads to a terminal in Waidhaus, West Germany. Says Heinz Durr, chairman of AEG-Telefunken, the big West German firm that may supply the compressors: "Even the American experience with the Alaskan pipeline, which is only one-quarter as long, is nothing compared with what we face here...
Lacking the machinery and the experience to build the project on their own, the Soviets have been seeking out Western contractors and suppliers, who are only too eager to help. The steel mills of Western Europe are now operating under capacity, and large manufacturers like Mannesmannröhren-Werke see big profits from the sale of expensive gas pipe. Two American firms are also looking for a share of the construction contract: Caterpillar Tractor hopes to get as much as $1 billion worth of business for road-building and pipelaying equipment, and International Harvester sees potential sales for compressor-station...