Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with enough maternal instinct left over to mother a stray coyote, a spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...
During its six years (146 shows) on TV, the Steel Hour (produced by the Theatre Guild) has pulled the same trick more often than its competitors like to remember. And more often than not, its secret has been good actors, live performances. Last week it was June Havoc as Momma, Edward Andrews as Dad, and Jane Withers as Momma's sister, who put a lively kick into Pink Burro. In the past, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search...
...stocky, short-legged man with a brush of steel-grey hair rises from a big breakfast at his Georgian-style house, shoehorns himself into a midget Triumph estate wagon, and drives a couple of miles to the rolling campus of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. Parking his small car in the No. 1 reserved spot, Dr. John Roderick Heller Jr. enters an unimpressive building labeled...
...Administration economists now feel that the sharp, recovery-inspired rise in industrial production (23% since June 1958) is about ready to level off and, because of the steel strike, may briefly drop a bit. After the drop they see a rise in output to an even higher level. Leading the way will be the 1960 auto model year that begins in October, and a capital-goods boom that is expected to run at the annual rate of $34 billion by the last quarter of this year...
...basic industry last week shuttered up the mills that produce the bulk of its steel, the broad-based U.S. economy was so sound in its nonsteel elements that it suffered few serious effects. In Washington high Administration economists predicted that the walkout would not imperil the economic boom-unless it lasts a painfully long time. But the shutdown immediately began to produce a stock of troubles...