Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarred Astronauts. Failure of the third-stage rocket engine to restart later in the mission was tentatively traced to a broken line that supplied hydrogen to the ignition system. Without an ignition flame, the engine could not be restarted. To reduce the possibility of future breaks in the stainless-steel fuel lines, flexible joints in the lines will be either eliminated or greatly strengthened...
...Steel, the industry leader, forged a 23% earnings increase (to $50.8 million), while second-ranked Bethlehem Steel posted a 36% rise (to $43.9 million), as stockpiling orders surged in anticipation of a strike this summer...
...industry after another, U.S. manufacturers are finding their markets at home and abroad besieged by aggressive foreign firms. Some 10% of the autos, 12% of the steel, and 31% of the shoes now reaching U.S. consumers are imported. "We simply can't compete on price," says Chairman Russell De Young of Goodyear Tire & Rubher Co., explaining bluntly why 300,000 of the 467,000 motorcycle tires sold in the U.S. last year were foreign-made...
...March deficit was caused in part by the long copper strike, an eleven-day New York dock strike, and by steel stockpiling as a hedge against a possible steel strike in August. While the outlook for the year as a whole is by no means so dismal-Washington has all but abandoned hope of reaching President Johnson's goal of fattening the U.S. trade account by $500 million in 1968. Says a top Commerce Department official: "We'll be lucky if we can hold the '67 surplus...
Made of five-eighths-of-an-inch steel, the Alexbow's 14-ft.-high concave blade is attached to the nose of a tug-pushed barge. It glides under unbroken ice, exerts upward pressure. As the ice breaks, it rides up the slopes of the bow blade and is deposited on solid ice at either side of the barge...