Word: steele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some measure, the conquerors and victims of Nazi Germany; 2) to keep future German industrial production "down to a "safe" level. In 1946, with France invited into the quadripartite administration of Germany, the Big Four agreed on a maximum level for Germany's industry keyed to an annual steel production of 5.8 million tons. About 400 war plants were to be dismantled (in a few cases, destroyed) as a matter of military security; about 1,500 other plants not directly engaged in war production, called "surplus," were earmarked for possible dismantling as a curb on excess productivity. The British...
...speed up Germany's recovery, the Western powers in 1947 raised the permitted level of steel production in West Germany to 10.7 million tons, and several hundred surplus plants were dropped from the category set aside for dismantling. The most recent working list covered 796 plants and parts of plants. Of these, 179 were in the U.S. zone, 125 in the French zone, 492 in the British zone. By last month the U.S. had dismantled all but two of the listed plants in its territory, and shipped most of them to Germany's former enemies. The French...
...four-year-old Parliament had just disposed of the last big item on Labor's 1945 election program: nationalization of the British steel industry. The House of Commons and the House of Lords, long at loggerheads over the steel bill (TIME, June 21, 1948), had worked out a compromise. The lords agreed to pass the bill without further ado if the government would not make it effective until after the 1950 general election. "Vesting day" for the steel industry was set for Jan. 1, 1951. Thus, if the Tories win, they can repeal the law before any steel plants...
...Colorado, where the water was low in irrigation reservoirs and natural cover sparse, hunters sank steel drums into the barren shores, climbed inside their makeshift blinds and pulled gunny sacks over their heads. Like hunters elsewhere, they were equipped with plenty of shells (No. 6 shot for ducks plus a few No. 2 in case geese came in low); some of them used kazoolike duck calls on which they quacked a bedlam of food calls. Mostly it did little good: the ducks sat on the open water far from the shore line, safely out of shotgun range...
...criterion for removing German industry has been altered to apply to those plants useful only for war, rather than to those which constitute war potential, as formerly. The ceiling of 11,500,000 tons remains on steel production, but limitation now depends on the good faith of the German manufacturers...