Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JONES AVERAGE will add four companies (Anaconda, Swift, Owens-Illinois Glass, and Alcoa) to industrial index, drop four (American Smelting & Refining, Corn Products, National Steel, and National Distillers & Chemical) to broaden number of industries represented among 30 stocks that comprise list...
...being stiffened by Commerce Department, which approved only $6,626,960 of $21.8 million in applications for Soviet-bloc exports during first quarter this year v. $10,213,000 in last quarter of 1958 out of $16 million in applications. Among items banned: polyethylene, carbon-welded pipeline, stainless steel...
...biggest say over what wages the steel industry will-or will not-pay in its new steel contract is Roger Miles Blough (rhymes with now), 55, the tough-minded chairman of U.S. Steel. Blough, who sternly calls for "renewal of the present contract with no rise in wage rates for one year," has the sinewy build (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) and face of a steel puddler. But he is not cast in the steelmaker's bluff, up-from-the-mills mold. He is an "outside man," a lawyer who got to the top by applying his logician...
...those Depression days, the young lawyer had to canvass ten firms before he got his first offer. When he applied for a job at the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, which numbered U.S. Steel among its clients, the official who interviewed Roger Blough noted: "First-class chap; good, clean-looking, talked intelligently. We would probably make no mistake." Irving Olds, former chairman of U.S. Steel, who moved into the company from White & Case himself, puts it another way: "Blough was one of those fellows who turn up no more than once in ten years...
Blough, hired by White & Case, got his first big chance when the New Deal's Temporary National Economic Committee launched a congressional study, which was a veiled attack on Big Business. Blough was put in charge of a task force of 20 lawyers to make Big Steel's case, did so well that, at 38, he was named general solicitor for U.S. Steel itself...