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- Nov. 30, 1992: Died:Joseph Block
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Nov. 30, 1992 Windsor: A House Dividing
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 26
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- <p> DIED. Joseph Block, 90, folksy, independent steel executive;
- in Chicago. The former chairman of the Inland Steel company,
- Block was a grandson of its founder and the son of its former
- president. Starting as a mill hand in 1922, he held nearly
- every position in the company before becoming chairman in 1959.
- His civic conscience and common touch ran deep; he threw the
- weight of his company behind securing a fair-employment law in
- Illinois and redeveloping East Chicago. In 1962 he caused
- controversy by breaking step with the steel industry and
- refusing to raise steel prices.
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