Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thumbed noses at federal laws, such as the Wagner Labor Relations Act, by prohibiting tribesmen from joining labor unions; the 74-man Tribal Council shooed organizers for the United Steel Workers and the Operating Engineers from their land by invoking an 1868 treaty provision that prohibits anyone except federal employees from setting foot on tribal lands without a permit...
Tables with Legs. At a time when American decorators are taking up Japanese-style sliding doors and silk screens, many Tokyo housewives now cook with gas, wash dishes in stainless steel sinks, and serve meals, not to a family sitting cross-legged on straw mats, but at Western tables. By 1993-"in time for my 107th birthday"-Kano hopes that Tokyo will be a city of skyscrapers, is even planning to build one 20 stories high...
...painful 1 ft. per hour, but the women stopped coming to the pithead. Some families bought cemetery plots for their men. The newsmen left for other stories, and the coal-grimed town nursed its grief behind closed doors, wondering dully what it would do now that DOSCO (Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., Ltd., subsidiary of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.) planned to close Springhill's last mine and major industry...
...they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel pipe, poured in water, hot coffee, then soup, while a mine doctor shouted instructions to take one swallow, count 500, take another...
...dorms, for the same monetary reasons that Quincy House is modern. The new structure will be built on sloping ground, three stories high at the lower end and two stories at the upper end. Construction techniques have not been decided on yet, but extensive use of steel or alumium, and glass, is being considered...