Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obediently bit his hand. He was still bandaging the wound when two policemen, answering the Tel-Guard summons, began pounding at his door. Fumbling frantically, John managed to undo the three locks on the door, but in the process he dropped the 7-lb. vertical steel bar from the $14.50 Police Fox lock on his foot. After apologizing profusely to the cops, he limped back inside to get his overcoat, checked to make sure that his can of Mace was in the pocket, re-locked the door and headed for the bus stop...
Everybody talks about the good old days in the U.S. at the turn of the century. One gentle but impassioned lady, Dr. Alice Hamilton, remembers it differently-as a grim time when men were immobilized by carbon monoxide gas in steel mills, women suffered brain damage from lead used in the pottery trade and thousands of workers were crippled and died from the inexorable accumulation of poisons in dozens of industries. Almost singlehanded, Dr. Alice drew state and federal attention to the horrors, aroused public indignation and campaigned across the nation until-finally-a body of laws was passed...
...firms with exuberance and even effrontery are the builders of conglomerates?those multipurpose, multi-industry companies that specialize in hodgepodge acquisitions. They are often put together in a seemingly haphazard tangle, with only finances for a common bond. In the modern conglomerate, oil and water do mix. So do steel and airlines, theaters and tobacco, chemicals and clothes, meat-packing and insurance. Such unlikely combinations have repeatedly paid off?at least...
...462?ten times as many as in 1950?and most were conglomerate mergers. Hardly any corporation, no matter how large, seems wholly safe from the grasp of conglomerates. During the past two years, conglomerates have absorbed or gained control of such big and basic enterprises as Jones & Laughlin Steel, Lorillard, Wilson, United Fruit and Armour. Lately, relative newcomers to the corporate scene have attempted to take over Sinclair Oil, B. F. Goodrich, Allis Chalmers and mammoth A & P. Even Pan American World Airways, long considered to be practically an unofficial agency of the U.S. Government, feels threatened by Resorts International...
...With fond--recollections of the Bruno Sammartino-Shiek title match still titillating their memories, true Harvard sports afficienadoes are trouping to the IAB today for the first round of the intramural boxing tourney. Tuck a six-pack of Bud under your arm, steel yourself with your towniest "Kill de bum!", and join them. Next week, it's roller derby in Providence...