Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spokesmen for Big Steel and the United Steelworkers of America settled down to grim negotiations on a new contract in Manhattan last week (see BUSINESS), the President of the U.S. announced that he was looking on-and invited his 175 million fellow citizens to look with him. Dwight Eisenhower plainly wanted no settlement that would result in higher steel prices and another wave of inflation. And in saying so he came closer than ever before to transgressing his own stern rule against mixing in the private affairs of business and labor...
...rambling, off-the-cuff Eisenhower ambiguity left unclear just what Ike would do if a demand for higher steel wages resulted in higher steel prices-or, for that matter, in a prolonged strike. But seldom had the ambiguity served to better advantage: for without the thunder of a threat or the balm of a promise, the Manhattan negotiators began to feel the gaze of 175 million pairs of eyes...
...kidnaped, the other three youngsters murdered-a mob of settlers surged through Constantine's streets wrecking Moslem shops, beating up such hapless Moslem citizens as fell into their hands, and shouting: "De Gaulle to the gallows!" Next day Moslem youths counterattacked in the streets, wielding knives, razors and steel-tipped clubs against Constantine's Europeans...
...line name in the business is Paddock of California, which pioneered gunite (concrete sprayed on steel-mesh frame), the first development to bring pool prices within the reach of middle-income families. Both an equipment maker (filters, pumps) and a pool builder, Paddock was taken over in January by Refinite Corp., a small Midwest poolmaker whose aggressive president, Charles A. Spaulding Jr., has streamlined operations at Paddock. From a loss last year on sales of $7,968,905, Paddock expects to be well in the black in 1959 on sales of more than $10 million...
...land for as little as $2,000. From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported by a Redwood exterior. The pools, named after Company President Esther Williams, are movable...