Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bethlehem Steel from contracting scrap-recovery operations at the Johnstown, Pa. plant to an outside firm, although the contractor's operations, using specialized machinery, were far more efficient than the recovery methods Bethlehem had been using...
...Pennsylvania's A. M. Byers Co. from setting up a centralized maintenance system, although the arbitrator himself conceded that the old decentralized system was inefficient and costly. ¶A Republic Steel plant at Gadsden, Ala. from reducing the ratio of boilermakers' helpers to boilermakers, although methods and equipment had changed so drastically over the years that helpers were idle much of the time...
...basic 2-B dispute has been befogged by both sides: by McDonald's charges that the steel industry is out to "bust the union," and by the industry's failure to explain its case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government...
...Good-will tours are an inadequate substitute for solid policies"), attacks Administration defense policy ("The Republicans believe money to be more important than military security"), calls for a full-speed drive into space. It slams the anti-inflation policy ("Age-old affinity for the moneyed interests"), scores the prolonged steel strike ("A failure in executive leadership"), calls for prosperity for farmers ("The social institutions of many of our rural communities ... are withering under the deepening pall of agricultural depression...
...Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular track inside the doughnut, triumphantly saw the oscillograph's curve reach...