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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 26
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  4.     DIED. Joseph Block, 90, folksy, independent steel executive;
  5. in Chicago. The former chairman of the Inland Steel company,
  6. Block was a grandson of its founder and the son of its former
  7. president. Starting as a mill hand in 1922, he held nearly
  8. every position in the company before becoming chairman in 1959.
  9. His civic conscience and common touch ran deep; he threw the
  10. weight of his company behind securing a fair-employment law in
  11. Illinois and redeveloping East Chicago. In 1962 he caused
  12. controversy by breaking step with the steel industry and
  13. refusing to raise steel prices.
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