Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disciple and admirer of Eduardo Torroja, I congratulate you for your June 1 article and the superb photographs of some of his most beautiful structural achievements in concrete. I do not think the cheapness of steel in this country is a justification for the monstrosities we see every day, from fire escapes to some modern steel bridges...
...delivered three speeches in two days, consulted with Administration and military leaders on the problems of U.S. continental air defense, conferred with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Lauris Norstad (see FOREIGN NEWS), with the visiting chiefs of Western Europe's Common Market, its Coal and Steel Community and its Atomic Energy Community, had a nonpolitical chat with New York's visiting Governor Nelson Rockefeller, rounded it all off with 54 holes of weekend golf at Gettysburg...
...payments," a legal state just this side of actual bankruptcy that defers debt payments and allows a company to lay off help (otherwise forbidden by law). In a land where newspapers print no unpleasant news, word spread that the big (3,000 employees) Euskalduna shipyard and the Basconia steel mill in Bilbao were also about to lay off their work forces, and so was Madrid's leading steel company...
Almost everybody in Pittsburgh and other steel-producing areas now expects a steel strike on June 30; last week negotiators were farther apart than when they started six weeks ago. The United Steelworkers of America and the industry's four-man team, representing twelve companies, devoted more time to bombarding each other with press releases than to negotiating. At week's end the talks degenerated into a pointless skirmish over routine procedures of negotiation, and the union's 171-member wage policy committee authorized its officers to call a strike...
...years. Make that 20 years. That's what civil service has-why shouldn't we?" The steelman also wants enlarged health insurance to cover doctor bills short of hospitalization and to carry on after retirement. "That's when you need it most," said an Inland Steel worker...