Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Lincoln School in Manhattan, perhaps the top-ranking Progressive school in the U. S., which is subsidized by Rockefeller money and had two Rockefeller boys as students, groups of pupils last year went to visit coal mines, steel mills, farms, TVA. This experiment was financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Last week, after careful tests, Ohio State's Dr. Louis Rath, an evaluator for P. E. A., reported that in a ten-day trip and six weeks of related classroom study, high-school juniors gained 15% in consistency of their thinking, became markedly more liberal, matured...
...above the previous week but still 79,000 under the same week year ago. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported that placements by the U. S. Employment Service reached a new peak in September, while applications fell for the first time in a year. Steel, power and cotton textile output were up. Two fat refunding issues went to a premium in Wall Street. Spurred by General Motors, stocks climbed to new 1938 levels...
That worried comment-referring, ironically enough, to the steel industry, which scarcely three months ago headed the Anti-Monopoly Committee's list of suspects-was made last fortnight by Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Last week Philip Murray had reason to be reassured, for a two-month state of undeclared war in the industry was ended, temporarily at least, by an undeclared truce...
...Steel, which once produced 90% of the nation's steel, now produces only 37% and is heartily tired both of being called monopolistic and of losing business to independent companies. Last summer, therefore, it abolished price differentials between its Pittsburgh. Chicago and Birmingham plants which had compensated independent mills for their competitive disadvantages...
Transportation tie-ups caused by the storm delayed delivery of steel and other materials for the arena now being built by the Boston Skating Club, Coach Hodder had planned to use it for tow-hour daily practice periods before the opening encounter with Boston University on December 20. Now it seems as if he will have to use the downtown Arena again...