Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines and inflating gasoline prices, recession and high unemployment struck Detroit, Flint and other carmaking capitals. Also hurt were the industry's supplier cities: rubbermaking Akron, glassmaking Toledo, steelmaking Youngstown. Layoffs in the auto industry mounted to 116,000 workers (out of a total 765,400), and in steel to 45,000 (out of 466,859). Unemployment also ran higher than the national average in the metropolitan areas that live off heavier industries and old lines of commerce...
Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy to raise cash for a big drug deal. The friends turned against each other at their trials, Christopher saying he had been blackmailed into stealing the secrets by his former friend, Daulton insisting that all along he had been told they were working for the U.S., spreading false information. Judge...
...Medals for Dishonor inspired by the Spanish Civil War, later with a number of drawings that tried, in effect, to do a Bruegel on fascism. These desolate landscapes, populated by knotty women copulating with cannon, are postsurrealist cliches-although they make clear Smith's erotic feelings about steel. Even so, they are full of the harsh, graphic intensity that would soon burst forth in his sculpture...
...Draper and Kramer in Chicago that features three sunlit atriums. Architect Gunnar Birkerts' 14-story IBM building in Detroit is black on its north and east sides, to absorb heat, and silver on its south and west sides, to reflect it. A combination of tilted windows and curved stainless steel windowsill reflectors bounce natural light into the interior. The building requires only a mod erate 50 footcandles of artificial lighting and uses a thrifty 42,000 B.T.U.s of heat per sq. ft. per year (vs. up to 200,000 B.T.U.s for a glass-and-steel office building of similar size...
...plants, improved productivity and more jobs. Regulators and businessmen agree that giving managers more freedom of choice will motivate them to develop more efficient, economical methods of fighting pollution. Example: the old regulations required Armco to install about $15 million worth of pollution-control equipment at its steel plant in Middletown, Ohio. Under a pilot project for the bubble plan, the company chose instead to spend $4 million to pave parking lots, seed other areas and put in sprinklers that will suppress iron oxide dust. These measures are expected to remove six times as much pollution as the costlier gear...