Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel was ordered. Piece by piece, the men welded and bolted it into a single sheet, shaped it to fit the curve of the hull. Day after day, Deir, his face stubbled and grimy, his clothes soaked with oil, drove himself and the men unmercifully. Summer warmed the sea, the sun blistered their backs, and threats of heavy weather hung over them like a time bomb...
...badgered Ray's agent into giving her an audition. The inflections she learned on the Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials and playing some small parts on such dramatic shows as the U.S. Steel Hour. (On the Armstrong show about the liner Andrea Doria, Patty was the child tossed overboard by her mother.) Soon Patty had worked up to a leading part and rave notices for her performance in The Prince and the Pauper...
...prospective balance of the budget, to pay the Treasury's bills until tax collections pick up early next year. The Department also expects to raise another $2 billion or $3 billion before January, but does not know at what rate. Some moneymen think that the end of the steel strike will see a big demand and further squeeze on the money market; others argue that the impact of the post-strike demand has already been discounted. In any case the new bonds show that, given favorable interest rates, there is still plenty of money around...
Died. Walter F. Munford, 59, president of U.S. Steel Corp., who worked (1919) at nights as a die reamer for a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Worcester, rose to be president of American Steel and Wire Division (1953), executive vice president (1958); of a stroke following a knife wound, said to be accidental, at his summer cottage on Cape Cod; in Hyannis, Mass...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself. The story on nature in New York is complete and compelling, but the story was filed from Rockport, Mass. His ancient habitat, a rambling Riverdale house where once a flying squirrel was a steady customer at a bird-feeding station, is now a stretch of concrete in the Henry Hudson...