Word: steel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Doctorow is all of us at once. Most of all he is Joe of Paterson, a wily scavenger escaping from the Great Depression, sleeping on box cars, eating from cans, living like a tent peg in a one-ring circus. And then one night the star of Bethlehem Steel leads him to the private game reserve of one queer millionaire, autobody magnate F. W. Bennett, drawing-room Zeus, master of Loon Lake...
...Highway 57 as it winds to the north and west and then turns south, you can see the shipyard across the bend of the lake, its giant cranes silent. The business district comes before the bridge, and if you can see through the yellow and white smoke which the steel plant belches 24 hours a day, you can recognize the main street. In Lorain they call it Broadway, and some of the stores have been here 50 years or more, residents of the town long before Ford built the giant plant in 1966. Ford makes its "midsize" Thunderbird in Lorain...
...there are five Democrats for every Republican in Lorain. Voting Democratic was a tradition long before John Kennedy discovered that his California tan beat the 5 o'clock shadow in the first debate of 1960. Kennedy made a beeline to Lorain from Philadelphia the morning after, and thousands of steel workers turned out to greet the Democratic candidate despite the damp of a September morning...
...Lorain this year. The 7000 union men who normally paint the T-birds "forest green" and "Montana blue" haven't been doing much painting. The commercial side of the plant has been down more than half the year--one week on, one week off--and the prefab corrugated steel low-rise that houses Local 425 of the United Auto Workers has been more crowded than usual. At the steel plant, they've been a little luckier; pipe orders have come in from Youngstown, Ohio, and Indiana. But the half of the mill where 2000 people, sons of the Puerto Ricans...
...Mertz for Sheriff." In the past couple of years, almost one-third of the city's 1500 real estate agents have decided not to renew their licenses. Houses sell for $50,000 to $65,000; people working fulltime are making $20,000 at Ford, $17,500 at U.S. Steel. Even the U.S. Armed Forces has been forced to lease its Broadway recruiting center to the local Republican backers. It is, most definitely, a buyer's market...