Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close on the heels of the Joint Chiefs were Budget Director Maurice Stans and Presidential Aide Robert Merriam, who reviewed nonmilitary spending with Ike. Stans also brought bad news: the hopeful forecast of $100 million surplus in fiscal 1960 would likely become a deficit because of the steel strike. "The odds are swinging against a balanced budget this year," said Stans, explaining that strike losses would reappear next year as profits taxable during fiscal 1961. U.S. spending, said he, would be about $81 billion next year-up at least $2 billion over fiscal 1960. Hopefully, receipts would be up enough...
...problem: to find its source as fast as possible. Italian-born Dr. Goffredo G. Gensini buttonholed a visitor, Radiologist Charles Dotter from the University of Oregon. Dr. Dotter sterilized the G string of a guitar, punctured the main artery in the woman's thigh. then-watching the steel's progress under the fluoroscope-worked it up into the aorta, the body's main artery. When it was close to the heart, he slipped a thin polyethylene tube over the dangling end, worked this up the artery, using the steel string as a guide, then withdrew the guide...
Simple & Safe. Last week Drs. Dotter and Gensini told the Radiological Society of North America that steel-string and steel-spring techniques can be readily used to guide tubes into the left side of the heart itself-into the left ventricle, which pumps fresh blood to the entire body.* Pioneered in Sweden and France, the method has been adopted by Dr. Dotter in the hope of replacing techniques that, says he, were neither "simple, safe, nor reliable...
Grants and commitments for the projest thus far have come from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Sloan Foundation, the United States Steel Corporation, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and the Hudson Gas and Oil Company...
None of the workers have been hurt "too badly," he said, noting that the industry is capable of making enough steel in nine months to last the country a year. He listed several social benefits such as pensions and unemployment compensations which strikers have procured in the past and observed that if strikes had been forbidden these might never have been obtained. "I'm in favor of strikes to my dying day," he declared...