Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Mosa Pijade, the tiny, hunched intellectual who presides over the party's long-range thinking about this chronic indirection and indecision. He began with the standard visionary explanation: "Now you see only the difficulties and restrictions. We have no results yet, but we make big things, hydroelectric plants, steel mills. These take time, much work, manpower, but when the day comes when we can produce, then you shall see." Then he introduced a twist: "When we made the first five-year plan, we were full of ideas we had received and accepted from the U.S.S.R. without any criticism...
...Munich, police arrested Merchant Georg Brunner, 50, for illegally owning and trying to peddle a suitcase full of government-confiscated Adolf Hitler memorabilia including: several autographed copies of Mein Kampf, an initialed steel pocket watch, three engraved Hitler-head coins made in honor of his 50th birthday, his World War I army identity card, his 1933 nomination as Chancellor...
Before Radiologist Quick can use the prize, Roosevelt will have to build a machine to handle it. Plans, already drawn by Physicist Gioacchino Failla, call for a derrick-like supporting apparatus in an underground chamber and a 3½-ton bucket of lead, mercury and steel to hold the radium and direct its energy in converging rays on deep-seated cancers. When the machine is finished some time next year, the hospital will ship the empty bucket to Belgium and have it loaded. Then the radium will be brought back to Manhattan and put to work...
...been double-crossed by Washington. After G.M. and Ford had raised their prices-and Valentine had requested them to rescind the increases-the automen had trekked to Washington with charts and figures to show that labor costs had risen 11% and that materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in natural rubber this year...
...held down. To be successful in his attempt to control auto prices, Valentine would have had to control prices and wages all down the line-in fact, put the lid on a major segment of the entire U.S. economy. The auto industry consumes 20% of the nation's steel, and huge quantities of rubber, paint, fabrics, copper and almost every other major raw material...