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...main task was to bring labor peace to the strike-plagued firm and its 7,000 workers. Mulroney succeeded admirably, raising widows' pensions and distributing worker bonuses when the company broke the $100 million mark in earnings. Faced with the U.S. auto recession and declining demand for steel, Mulroney in 1982 shut down a company mine at Schefferville in northeastern Quebec. The closing put 285 miners out of work and turned Schefferville into a ghost town of boarded-up stores and FOR SALE signs...
Reagan this month will decide one major issue dividing the two countries: whether to include Canada in any new limits on foreign steel imports, which are hurting the U.S. steel industry. Canada, whose steel shipments to the U.S. totaled nearly 2.4 million tons last year, has asked to be exempted from the quotas. They could cost the country up to 3,000 jobs, and the Ottawa government contends that Canadians buy more steel-related products from the U.S., notably automobiles, than they sell...
...experimental Junkers JU-287 jet bomber with wings that raked sharply forward. The plane flew well in tests. But once the sound barrier was broken in 1947, the design presented a problem: forward-swept wings tore away from the fuselage at supersonic speeds, and strengthening the wings with steel or aluminum made the craft unacceptably heavy. Now, newly developed graphite-epoxy composites can produce a wing stronger than steel and up to 45% lighter. These materials form the skin of the X-29A's wings...
Around the fringe of the dusty, sprawling Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez (pop. 625,000) rise row after row of corrugated-steel and beige brick structures bearing the logos of RCA, General Electric and GTE. Inside a Honeywell building, hundreds of women wearing red smocks hunch over an assembly line as they put together tiny electronic devices. Ten million parts a month are turned out here and then trucked across the border to U.S. plants, which ship them off to be used in Apple computers, Xerox copiers and instrument panels for the space shuttle...
...world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." Fellow Futurist Antonio Sant'Elia drew plans for a Utopia of skyscrapers pierced by freeway ramps built of concrete and gleaming steel...