Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours of the court's decision, three loaded ore boats sailed out of Duluth harbor for the steel centers; within two hours maintenance workers began heating up coke ovens in Pittsburgh. By midweek the first pig iron would pour down white-hot from ten-story-high blast furnaces, thence become raw steel within less than 24 hours, bars and sheets within a week or so. Despite these quick reactions, the injunction was little more than an 80-day aspirin for an economy aching for a real cure of the steel crisis...
...group of 25 will perform in Russian, as it did when it travelled to the Soviet Union during the past two summers. After the performance, members will discuss their adventures behind the Iron Curtain...
Mitterrand had gone only a few blocks when he noticed that he was being followed by another car. As he later told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...
RUSSIAN PIG-IRON shipment of 2,500 tons is being purchased by U.S. firms for 20% under the domestic price. Budd Co. is testing 600 tons, which it has bought for castings...
...their plants humming again. Moving ore to steel plants is almost certain to be a problem. The Great Lakes ore fleet, most of which is idled by the strike, has little more than a month left before the lakes freeze over, may not be able to supply enough iron ore to keep the mills operating until spring. Even if the steel firms decide to use more-costly rail transportation, not enough cars are available to move all the ore they need-and cold weather freezes ore in the cars, makes it more difficult to load and unload...