Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobel lived during the latter half of the 19th century, when industrialized Europe saw its steel industry sag because of overdevelopment and a lack of new markets. In search of new, lucrative fields, the steel and iron companies, the dominant industries in this era of unusually heavy industry, turned to armaments: large bore cannons, machine guns, steel-plated ships and a wide assortment of modernized rifles...
After World War II the present arms market emerged. Light, high-technology industry replaced the heavy steel-oriented production of earlier years, and manufacturers concentrated on aircraft, computers and sophisticated defense systems. Because of its scale as well as its efficiency, this sophistication raised the stakes of the arms game to unexpected heights of bribery, diplomacy and, of course, destruction...
...Swope Parkway two women on the way to pick up their husbands at the Armco Steel plant took refuge on top of their car. But it overturned after being battered by abandoned floating cars and the torrents of water; one woman was rescued by six men who formed a human chain to pull her to safety, but her sister-in-law drowned. The 23 other dead were found, said one reporter, "all over the place...
...1930s. Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...
Jerry Jeff Walker, one of the hard-drinking boys, takes the stage and barrels into a country rocker titled Gettin' By. Almost immediately a fistfight breaks out in one corner of the auditorium; dancing bursts out in another. Midway through Walker's set the pedal steel-guitar player takes over with a whining rendition of Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful The crowd of 1,500 cheers, hoisting half-empty Lone Star beers toward the stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind...