Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 199 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:18 am: | |
How about cardboard !
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Iseries840 Member Username: Iseries840
Post Number: 1140 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
U.S. Steel isn't closing down!! |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5805 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
Back to the soybean panels! (Don't park too close to hungry cows or such.) |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9358 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:47 am: | |
I think that's the kind of vehicles the Dem congress is looking for. Nice and green. After all, they are the automotive experts. |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 8025 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:51 am: | |
BUMP! FALSE INFORMATION without resourceful facts to back up your thesis. U.S. Steel is up and running. Go look at the smoke stacks from Jefferson Ave. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9359 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:55 am: | |
FEW DETAILS IN STEELMAKER'S PLAN TO IDLE PLANTS http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap /2008/12/09/ap5797473.html On the other hand: US STEEL SHARES JUMP AS ANALYST UPGRADES STOCK http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap /2008/12/08/ap5794194.html |
Iseries840 Member Username: Iseries840
Post Number: 1141 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 11:03 am: | |
The steel mills are cutting production to increase the price of steel. Just one of the benefits of the consolidation of the industry. |
Retroit Member Username: Retroit
Post Number: 570 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 1:42 pm: | |
How about cotton cars? I'm sure the southern Senators who raised such opposition to the loan/"bailout" would love it. (Message edited by Retroit on December 09, 2008) |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 8027 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 1:55 pm: | |
Johnlodge, Where's the informative proving U.S. Steel is shutting down production? |
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 200 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:10 pm: | |
Word-Play.... but a bunch of folks who actually WORK at U.S. Steel are "temporarily" out of work until ... March... April... May?? What would you call it? |
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 201 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:12 pm: | |
Here's what I gleaned information from: http://www.post-trib.com/news/ 1313479,ussteel.article |
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 202 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:16 pm: | |
Danny... you're right... all of those thousands of laid-off U.S. Steel workers shouldn't think of it as "closing" but merely as a "re-adjustment of task forces for efficient usage of Ferrous materials creation" http://getsteelnews.blogspot.c om/2008/12/us-steel-to-close-t hree-plants.html |
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 203 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:22 pm: | |
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Bobl Member Username: Bobl
Post Number: 247 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:35 pm: | |
I've been told that car license plates were once made of leather, which was munched on by farm animals and critters..... |
Otter Member Username: Otter
Post Number: 448 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:57 pm: | |
Time to bring back the Adobe, perhaps! |
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 246 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 5:56 pm: | |
...ooh...ooh...I am receiving visions of the Future....The local pimp is called WindFarm Slim and he is cruising the Boulevard in his tricked out Detroit Electric, with the original salon style seating, his impressive ringed fingers on the hand guiding the tiller, proudly proclaiming:"My Ladies is Electrifying!" |
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 504 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 7:50 pm: | |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =myCDlel_Ek8&feature=PlayList& p=7E22745AEBA3A1F2&playnext=1& index=34 |