Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned a lot about mutual funds, but little about the bonus : some hot tips on the stock market. Only at the very end did M.I.T.'s closemouthed men loosen up enough to venture that M.I.T. looks with favor on such true-blue chips as IBM and U.S. Steel...
Trial by Fire. What has kept Torroja largely unknown is that most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove...
...gathered in Manhattan last week at the meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board took their annual look at the state of the U.S. economy. Their report was still another confirmation that the U.S. is in the early stages of a new boom. The businessmen thought that a steel strike might slow the economy's pace somewhat in 1959's second half, but not enough to take the zip out of industry-or prevent it from hitting new peaks in many important sectors...
...days of May were at a near record 19,768 new cars daily, so good that Ward's Automotive Reports predicted production of 500,000 units in May, another 500,000 in June, and possibly even another in July, traditionally the tailoff month in every model year. For steel, it meant one more increase, with schedules calling for 94.1% of rated capacity and record production of 2,665,000 tons this week...
...Republic Steel Corp., the nation's third largest steelmaker, announced that it will spend $375 million on a major improvement program over the next four years. The first project will be a $45 million hot strip mill, with a capacity for 145,000 tons per month, to be added at Republic's Warren, Ohio plant. To dispel any doubts about overcapacity, Republic's Chairman Charles M. White told stockholders that he foresees the possibility of total steel industry output in 1960 exceeding 1955's record of 117,036,085 tons. Republic, which has boosted...