Word: steele
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...making of an ad for Volvos. Print and TV commercials featured Bear Foot, a six-ton truck that drives over a row of cars, flattening them all -- except the Volvo. But last week the Swedish automaker withdrew the ad, admitting that the sturdy Volvo had a little help: steel posts welded to the chassis. When Volvo filmed the commercial last June in Austin, Bear Foot initially crushed everything in its path, including a Volvo. In view of 400 hired spectators, the production crew beefed up the dwindling supply of Volvos with the steel posts. Angry spectators prompted a state probe...
...when meltwater covered the land bridge joining the British Isles to the mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the face of the French section of the service tunnel that is being bored 131 ft. below the bed of the Channel waited for a thin steel probe, drilled from the British side, to pierce the wall of chalk marl in front of them. The 2-in.-diameter aperture opened by the probe could not be seen at first, but then the British crew sent a blast of compressed air through the hole, blowing out the last crumbs...
...average family income was only 6% higher than in 1973, though almost twice as many wives were at work. In many households, one well-paid smokestack job with health insurance has been replaced by two service jobs without benefits. Burger King doesn't provide as well as Bethlehem Steel...
...passengers. The space frame is not unique to Saturn, but it supports a special feature: all the vertical body panels (doors, fenders, quarter panels) attached to it are made of plastic polymer, which doesn't rust and resists low-velocity denting. The horizontal panels are still made of steel...
...There was a time when operation was delayed to eight o'clock," said project manager Herbert W. Standke. "When we were driving in the steel sheeting, we didn't start pounding until eight...