Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aluminum, one of the lightest and most malleable of metals, traditionally has been a cyclical business. But today its producers, almost alone among metal manufacturers, are exulting over prosperous stability. Makers of steel, zinc, nickel and copper are ailing because of surging costs and rising cheap imports, but the aluminum industry cannot keep up with demand...
...North American Coal Corp.: "The operators do not want to tear the union apart. They want a strong union, one that can deliver a work force every morning." Many executives of the big companies are upset about the latest contract proposal and blame Jimmy Carter for it. Said a steel company official: "There's no doubt we were the losers, dragged into defeat by Government intervention...
Hell, for my small work force, I'd be willing to pay those deductibles out of my own pocket. It's the big guys like Bethlehem, U.S. Steel and Consolidation who can't afford them because their labor force...
...inter-agency task force to recommend a national policy for the disposal of nuclear wastes, a prerequisite for large-scale nuclear development. The transportation and storage of spent fuel and other dangerous wastes have been so obstructed by technical and bureaucratic delays that only one active repository, a steel and concrete storage pit filled with water, located near the small town of Morris, Ill., is in operation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that as many as five or six additional sites will be needed by the year...
...county area. Collectively the wells produce about 600 million cu. ft. of gas annually, enough to supply more than 5,000 homes for a year. Other companies can draw on gas from wells drilled on their plant sites. Among them are Westinghouse Air Brake, Koppers Co., Edgewater Steel, Union Switch & Signal and Pittsburgh Forgings. As energy prices rise, the scramble for wells intensifies. One real estate developer, Town Development, Inc., has applied to put down wells on the city limits of Pittsburgh to supply fuel to a motel and office-building complex..The Pittsburgh fire department is opposing the move...