Word: youngstowners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, as a 140-car freight train rumbled by tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws. From one ruptured tanker poured a cloud of deadly, yellowish-green chlorine gas. Engineer Ray Shores grabbed his portable short-wave radio and sprinted 75 yds. to a swamp, where he burrowed deep into the mud and called for help...
...Youngstown, Ohio...
...causing neither to any great extent. True, new-car sales were down during the Jan. 1-10 period, v. the same period a year ago-the sixth consecutive decline. But neither Detroit's automen nor Wall Street analysts seem particularly worried. As Dick Barrett, a Cadillac dealer in Youngstown, Ohio says, "I don't see a big increase, but 1977 was a very good year, and without any increase we'll still have a good year...
Meanwhile, the domestic picture remains glum. Last week Chairman Edgar B. Speer of U.S. Steel said that his com pany would eventually have to close down its Youngstown, Ohio, operation, which currently employs 5,000 workers. It is clear that the Youngstown plants, with their ancient machinery, have also become geographically obsolete. Even if the Administration's trigger-price scheme succeeds, older plants like Youngstown's are unlikely to be salvageable...
...luxury for more than 6 million Americans-mostly blacks and Hispanics, women and youths-who are unemployed. Pressure from imports in many industries, notably steel, clothing and electronics, threatens more jobs. Along with rising cries for protectionism, there are some encouraging attempts at selfhelp. The shutdown of an old Youngstown Steel plant devastated that Ohio city, but municipal leaders and Youngstown Steel employees have begun a search for a new owner and are investigating a plan to take over the plant and operate it as a community-owned enterprise...