Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones & Laughlin stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...Charlemagne's Europe (Charlemagne ruled more of Germany, but only half of Italy). But this new super customs union, among states which remain politically sovereign, has a power potential undreamed of by the 9th century Franks. The 166 million people of the Common Market nations produce more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world's trade (one-fifth) than the U.S. No warrior hosts throng around the eight-story Brussels headquarters of the Common Market. Calm-voiced Walter Hallstein, 57, the onetime German law professor who is the Common Market's chief administrative officer...
...benefit of the peasants." Observers offered a number of reasons: Red China is exporting about 2,000,000 tons of grain a year; China's archaic and anarchic transportation system, being rebuilt by the Reds, is bogged down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could get no fish; Shanghai residents had to take half of their rice ration in sweet potatoes...
...forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort for her in the approving messages and gifts from well-wishers all over the U.S., including TV Comic Jackie Gleason's chocolate cake with a steel file jutting candlelike from the frosting...
Charles Eames's plywood-and-steel side chair, designed...