Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4--The 33-man executive board of the United Steelworkers today was reported to have recommended rejection of an industry proposal to end the 82-day nationwide steel strike...
...Sure." In Pittsburgh, the skies were uncommonly dark in the absence of the glares from strikebound steel hearths, but the city's lights were blazing as thousands of people choked the streets near Khrushchev's hotel, gave him the biggest, loudest welcome of the whole tour, even awarded him his first "key to the city...
Charging into an operating steel factory, the Chairman missed not a thing, questioned one worker about his wages ($85-$90 a week), hefted tools, examined huge machines, freely offered his comments. When a guide showed him a machine and said, "I'm sure that you have better ones in your country," the New Nikita replied without a trace of rancor: "Don't be so sure. We have better ones; we have the same kind-we even have worse. I don't say that all you have is bad and all we have is good. We can learn...
...Valkyrie is revolutionary, from its stainless steel skin (withstanding 600° temperatures) to its configuration (vast delta wings aft; short, duck-winged "canard" control surfaces in the nose...
...dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution sparked by Mies van der Rohe swept into power after World War II, Alvar Aalto (rhymes with hall-toe) dropped out of sight, seemed close to becoming architecture's forgotten...