Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manager David Croninger: "We put on a saturation campaign much like an ad agency would schedule to sell cigarettes." Hard-selling its product, the station each day broadcast a windbag of "Hi, kids" spot announcements by such notables as White Sox Manager Al Lopez, Singer Tommy Sands and Inland Steel President Joseph Block. At a monster rally last week (17 cops and a turn-away crowd of 2,500 teeners), Deejay Howard Miller paraded an in-person menagerie of teen-rage songbirds, drew from Singer Eddy Arnold the admission that he quit high school in the tenth grade and wishes...
Candela moved on to experiment with conoids, folded slabs and elliptical domes. In a land where steel is costly and labor cheap, he proved that he could use concrete shells to build a big church for $41,000, a warehouse for as little as 50? per sq. ft. Clients, including real-estate developers in Texas and a restaurant chain in Florida, have found them not only cheap but handsome. In his just completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario...
...steel industry's scheduled operating rate also continued to climb for the eighth straight week, reached 63.6%, highest since June 16. Steelmen expect the rate to rise to about 70% as inventories are rebuilt and construction awards are translated into more orders for structural steel, which hit the highest level in July in 14 months. Steel stocks paced the market; U.S. Steel hit a historic high of 75⅝. Department stores also reported that sales rose 3% over a year...
...SOVIET STEEL PRODUCTION spurted 8% to 30 million tons in first half of 1957, world's biggest gain by far, says U.S. Commerce Department. Meantime, other nations held fairly steady, except U.S., which plunged 37% to 38 million...
...Tougher Steel. An alloy sheet steel that hardens in air instead of the usual salt or oil quenching baths and is six times tougher than automobile body metal was announced by U.S. Steel. Named Airsteel X-200, the steel was designed for rockets and missiles. It can be formed, welded, heated and cooled with less danger of distortion-producing stresses...