Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek steel hull of a nuclear submarine moved easily and rapidly through the quiet depths, its reactor-driven geared turbines purring, its coffeepots perking, its jukebox playing, its 116-man crew caught up with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President...
Thrown in with the Middle East questions at the press conference was one that brought the President closer than in years to the edge of an I-told-you-so-and justifiably. The question: Now that the recession is receding, steel prices going up and federal budget deficits looming, did the President have any plans for dealing with the problem of inflation? Said he: "Well, strangely enough, you gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, were hearing me talk about this problem of inflation a few months back, when everybody wanted to spend more money and to decrease taxes . . ." Dwight Eisenhower, economic conservative...
...keeping with an old family custom, a cousin of Jordan's young King Hussein gratefully took the helping hand of the British government last week. On dole in Scunthorpe, England, after being laid off from his $34-a-week job in a steel mill, was Hussein Mohammed Sagaff, 29, who nevertheless decided not to go home again: "My family would give me money if I returned to the Middle East, but I prefer the Western way of life-to be able to take my wife to a dance if I like...
...teeming Lucknow (pop. 500,000), capital of Uttar Pradesh province. Students stormed through the streets, set up loudspeakers outside the Council House, bombarded a captive audience of state legislators with fiery exhortations. On their way to another demonstration, a group collided head-on with short-tempered police: brickbats flew, steel-tipped lathis flailed, shots were fired. A passing water carrier was killed; the wounded totaled...
...Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif. got a grant of only $25,000 from U.S. Steel, but it built a library that brought the school accreditation...