Word: youngstown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speedy end of the 31-day steel strike in the rest of the industry seemed inevitable. Other big steelmakers-Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube-were ready to follow Bethlehem's lead. The little steel companies had little chance once the chink appeared in the industry's front, were almost sure to sign with the Steelworkers and get their blast furnaces and open hearths roaring again. U.S. Steel, the kingpin, could hardly afford to hold out longer with Bethlehem gone from the struggle...
After spinning a fine story of what a dedicated idealist he was, Communist Gates had been asked a few pertinent questions. He had testified, had he not, that he was born in New York? Yes. Then McGohey produced a relief application that Gates had once filled out in Youngstown, Ohio, giving Lakewood, N.J. as his birthplace. Had Gates been using that name since 1932? Yes. McGohey fished out a 1937 passport application in which he gave his name as Isriel Ragenstrich. Had Gates not gone to jail twice? Yes. McGohey confronted him with a previous sworn statement, declaring...
...were coming in faster than at any time since "the slide" began last October. More than half the plants surveyed were either increasing production or holding steady at present rates. In some areas an upturn was apparent: orders had picked up enough to boost production this week in the Youngstown (Ohio) steel district from 72% of capacity...
...boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
...year-old President Clifford H. Snyder, who started in business with a $75 second-hand truck. He now runs a company that grosses $25 million a year. Along with Co-Inventors Arnold E. Lamm, Sunnyhill's executive vice president, and V. J. McCarthy, a coal man of Youngstown, Ohio, he built a prototype of the machine around an old army tank, worked out the bugs in a company warehouse, that was guarded day & night...