Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better served if more attention were given to economic realities than to economic symbolism. In particular, perhaps the Council on Wage and Price Stability and other economic controllers should consult more closely with the Government's own Bureau of Labor Statistics, for as you correctly pointed out, the steel-price increases that receive so much blame for inflation actually have only a very small impact on the Wholesale Price Index...
Board of Directors, U.S. Steel Corp...
There are other encouraging signs for the East. Pittsburgh has been buoyed by predictions of a good year for steel, and New York City by the Ford Administration's approval of $1 billion to replace the crumbling West Side Highway with a six-lane interstate Westway...
...will at least have the advice of people who know our problems." Moreover, the Midwestern economic outlook is improving. Detroit hopes to sell close to 10 million cars and 3.5 million trucks this year, thus putting to work many of the 39,000 unemployed auto workers. In turn, the steel and tire industries are heading for a good year, and the prosperity will trickle down to the rest of the region's economy. Said Eugene Swearingen, chairman of the Bank of Oklahoma in Tulsa, Okla.: "I'm relaxed and optimistic...
...athlete of steel and iron with not a superfluous ounce of metal on it!" exclaimed William Dean Howells before the centerpiece of Philadelphia's International Exhibition celebrating our nation's 100th birthday. He was inspired to these words by the gigantic 700-ton Corliss steam engine that towered over Machinery Hall. When President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil turned the levers on May 10, 1876, a festive crowd cheered as the engine set in motion a wonderful as sortment of machines- pumping water, combing wool, spinning cotton, tearing hemp, printing newspapers, lithographing wallpaper, sewing...