Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's highest-paid executive ($511,249 in 1958), President Arthur B. Homer of Bethlehem Steel Corp. -Providence Technical High School, Providence...
...still requires the cold fear of war hanging over the heads of his 650 million subjects to help force the harsh realities of the Communist revolution down their throats. Peasant resistance to Mao's rural communes, though chiefly passive, has reached proportions alarming to Peking: food, coal, steel and industrial production are sagging far below earlier boastful figures. And for all his claims that Red China is moving into an entirely new phase of human development, Mao has found no other way to whip up his unenthusiastic masses than the timeworn device employed by every despot since the world...
Uncertainty over settlement of the steel strike and tightening money last week alarmed many an investor, and the stock market suffered a sharp selloff. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 9.90 points to 645.90, lowest since June 29. then rallied at week's end to close...
Although there have been few deeply noticeable effects of the steel strike thus far. signs of its impact on the economy are now beginning to appear. The Commerce Department reported that in July, manufacturers' shipments and new orders declined. Total adjusted manufacturing sales in July dropped to $30.8 billion, a decline of $400 million from June...
...their training in an almost unexcelled school of versatility: the management-consultant firm. Born in Watertown, Mass., he has made a career of versatility. He swung a pick in a highway gang, earned a doctorate in metallurgy at Harvard ('34), taught in universities (Harvard, Lehigh) before joining Republic Steel as a laborer (wages: 59? an hour). In 1941, having moved up to become boss of Republic's wiremaking division at $12,000 a year, he turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that really appealed to his talents: a job with Manhattan...