Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearby is an even more ethereal structure, a "tensegrity" (tension-integrity) mast, made of Monel wire and aluminum tubes, which stands 36 ft. high and weighs only 90 lbs. Bucky's "mast" has the makings of a revolution in architecture, because it puts the horizontal steel-in tension principles that apply to suspension bridges into a vertical context. The wires, in a state of tension, keep the mast unbending and rigid. The aluminum tubes, arranged like pairs of end-to-end coat hangers (see cut), push the wires apart to keep them taut. An exact balance of push...
Barely three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley steel injunction (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), workers were on their way back to the mills. In Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...
...Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Inland, Republic and most of the other big producers expected to pour their first iron and steel in 48 to 96 hours after firing up. By the end of the first week, the industry hopes to be at 25% of capacity; 40% to 70% capacity should come by the second week, depending on the product and the mill; and by the third week, production should reach 80% of capacity. Better than 90% capacity will take another two to three weeks...
...furnaces during the long shutdown. In some cases, the interior brick linings have contracted and furnace roofs have fallen in. Steelmen waited anxiously for signs of other damage as the heat built up to 3,000°. What may hold repairs to a minimum is the fact that U.S. Steel, Inland and others kept nonunion supervisory staffs in the mills to keep heat in the furnaces and do some of the basic repair work as the damage occurred. The industry will not know for sure until the furnaces start operating this week. Says one steelman: "We've never gone...
Even if the industry goes back in operation rapidly, the effects of the strike on the U.S. economy will be felt for many weeks to come. Though there are still some 4,500,000 tons of finished steel in inventories in the U.S., much of it is in odd sizes. It will take at least four weeks before the pipelines begin to fill with new finished steel products, five to six weeks before completely balanced deliveries are resumed. The press of demand is so great that the steel companies will fill back orders as they appear on the books...