Word: youngstowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university drew up 15 elementary lectures on economics, and trained a crew of 34 Republic supervisors to deliver them. When White first tried out the course on 250 supervisors at the Youngstown plant, the men were cynical, expecting "some more of that company hooey." When they learned that they were getting easily understood facts-and a minimum of hooey-about matters which had long baffled them, their interest rose until men were betting on who would score highest in the tests. White quickly extended the lectures to foremen in 26 plants...
...issue of the Youngstown Vindicator appears an article, quoting an unsigned letter from the mother of a Radcliffe girl, which was printed in The Harvard Crimson...
...Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Silver, vice president of the American Woolen Co.; and the Most Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, Coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio...
...year long, in the sky over Pittsburgh, Youngstown and a dozen other steel towns, there was a pillar of smoke by day and the glow of fires by night, as the mills worked at capacity. They ladled out 97 million tons of the metal, almost 10 million more than in the peak year of World War II, and twice as much as all the steel mills in the rest of the world...
...Youngstown's expansion is part of a $470 million program by 18 U.S. steel companies, undertaken with an assist from the Government. The National Security Resources Board earlier this month gave the companies "necessity certificates" allowing them, for tax purposes, to write off about 75% of the cost of expansion in five years, instead of the usual 15 to 20 years. Thus, most of the cost of expansion will come out of money that would otherwise be paid in taxes...