Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head and pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed up Cazenovia Creek until a wall of water finally burst the ice; the resulting wave swept automobiles underwater, ripped a 515-ft.-long grain boat from its moorings in the Buffalo River and slammed it into the steel-girdered Michigan Avenue Bridge. The bridge shivered and collapsed...
...Used as a fertilizer, also in steel-hardening and other industrial processes...
...gotta use a little finesse," said one steel broker. "One summer three men I was tryin' to sell came to town. One man was quite elderly; I was afraid he'd die on me ... When I made my move I found out the two younger men were the ones that had to be impressed. I told the girls there's to be no mention of money ... to just get ga-ga over the whole thing . . . The young men's egos were at the bursting point. The deal netted me about...
...make the ring even tighter, August Thyssen-Hütte, one of the keystones of a huge Third Reich steel combine of 177 companies, has applied to the High Authority to merge with Phoenix-Rheinrohr, West Germany's third biggest steel producer. The move would create a giant even bigger than Krupp-Bochumer Verein, with a 6,000,000-ton capacity and nearly $1 billion in sales. Mannesmann, the No. 4 steel producer, recently eliminated several of its subsidiaries, absorbed them into the main firm. The trend to growth extends beyond iron and coal. Friedrich Flick, a prewar steel...
...Steel Hour...