Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press to sing, I would climb up on the pressman's platform, and for a moment or two my small perch became Olympus. I would riffle the paper in place on the feedboard and then punch the first power button to stir the dead weight of the steel and lead. The press would groan and move and finally plunge back and forth like a stallion in harness, air cylinders hissing and gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing the power and the meaning. The evening's drama had begun...
When the run was over, the small staff would quiet the press and lift off the lead pages in their steel chases and throw the Linotype slugs into scoops to be reused. There would be quiet talk about the stories in the paper. In the drought years, we wondered if rain would ever come again. In the war years, we marveled at how quickly friends had been shipped around the world to distant battlefields, with only bits and pieces of their censored, yearning letters printed each week...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE England led the Industrial Revolution and fed it with natural resources from its colonies. The pace of technological innovation was extraordinary and included the steam engine and the Bessemer steel converter. England produced more steel, locomotives and textiles than anyone else. Its economy grew fourfold from 1851 to 1911. Since the British pound was tied to gold, it was a global currency and helped make England the center of international banking...
...remarkable that the United Steelworkers has shut down Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. for the past nine months. The U.S.W. is no stranger to picket lines. What is really remarkable is that this longest Big Steel walkout since World War II has gone unnoticed by both the nation and the marketplace...
...walkout has kept supplies lean and prices strong despite a flood of metal from foreign firms and new mini-mills. Without Wheeling's 2.5 million tons of annual output, giants like the U.S. Steel Group of USX have been coming up with their best earnings gains in years. At U.S. Steel, profits nearly doubled in the first quarter...