Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week concrete will be poured for the foundation walls and column supports, allowing erection of the steel superstructure to take place in mid-January. The entire project is scheduled to be completed in March...
Once again the bankers met, but this time they gave up all hope of rallying the whole market; they agreed only to help fill "air holes," stocks that could find no buyers at all. This time no Dick Whitney went marching out to snap up U.S. Steel. Instead, Whitney and the rest of the exchange's governing committee met secretly in a room directly under the exchange floor to decide whether the markets should be temporarily shut down...
...downs continued. The next day, U.S. Steel declared an extra dividend, the market took heart and the Times industrials gained 31 points. John D. Rockefeller, now 90, announced his optimism: "Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound . . . my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks." Retorted Comedian Eddie Cantor: "Sure, who else had any money left...
...those." Today's jeeps, like the earlier dragsters, can be souped up with a variety of gizmos, including "lift kits" (a set of springs that raises the chassis higher off the ground), running boards to help passengers climb into the elevated cabs, fog lights, protective body molding, and tubular steel grates to protect the grille from imaginary sagebrush...
Business leaders are bullish on their competitive ability. According to a poll conducted this year for the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm, 88% of the 300 top manufacturing executives surveyed said they thought the U.S. could regain its edge in the auto industry, while 71% felt that way about the steel business. But what alarmed the accounting firm's top manufacturing expert, Henry Johansson, was that the majority of the U.S. executives (55%) still see their main competition as domestic rather than foreign. Too many business leaders fail to recognize the global marketplace. For those Americans, said one electronics executive...