Word: steels
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...glass and steel machine ascended slowly to the second level, and on its polished chrome steps, it carried the Colonel...
...Colonel moved slowly down Huntington Avenue, surrounded by women who looked like pre-revolutionary Russian peasants. The Intern and the Driver watched him go. They could have sworn they heard hoofbeats and the sounds of polished steel...
...pair wandered around the new light and steel building and drank gin. They got enmeshed in countless conversations about generalities, and small-talked with a vengeance. They chatted with the models and they chatted about the Vineyard. They admitted that Chinese bronzes had changed their young lives so as not to appear boorish. The Driver told someone at the buffet that only cars and art made life worth living, and on the whole he thought that art was probably easier to take care of. As the sun set over Pei's masterpiece, they walked...
...firms of the 1960s, but its forays into businesses as wide-ranging as prescription drugs and sporting goods drove it to the edge of bankruptcy. The company's turn-around to financial health began after it sold off several of its acquisitions and concentrated on the manufacture of steel and a few other basic products. Recalls Paul Thayer, who is now LTV's chairman: "We had been a conglomerate mess to say the least. We had no corporate understanding of the businesses we were...
Author Fraser, 56, an excellent popular historian (The Steel Bonnets) as well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details...