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Word: steels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Two-Way Street? | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...sixth time since the end of World War II, the United Steelworkers of America had walked out in a nationwide steel strike. Cold were the furnaces of two dozen steel firms that employ 500,000 workers and make 85% of the nation's steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Two-Way Street? | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...workmen out of their jobs in supporting mining and transportation industries, Washington deemed the strike no immediate menace to the economy's health; Administration economists predicted that upsurge would start right in again as soon as the strike was over. Piled up in warehouses were record steel inventories calculated to last two months or so (see BUSINESS). President Eisenhower said that he planned no drastic move to try to end the strike. "I believe." said he, "that we have got to thoroughly test out and to use the method of free bargaining," and when the Government starts pressuring, "then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Two-Way Street? | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Punch-Card Production. To produce stronger and more ductile steel, 17 U.S. companies have adopted another new innovation called vacuum melting. The entire process of melting and pouring steel is carried on in a huge vacuum chamber, operated by remote controls that resemble those in an atomic "hot lab." On a more modest scale, many U.S. companies are also pouring molten steel from their furnaces into a vacuum chamber, producing high-quality, high-stress steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Man of Steel | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). June Havoc, who ought to know, plays an ex-vaudevillian married to the owner of a mountain beanery, whose daughter is afraid to tell her that she has secretly married and wants out of show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Time Listings, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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