Word: adirondacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedict Arnold sent his soldiers to dig iron for cannon in New York's Adirondack Mountains. There was iron there, but in the westward sweep of U.S. industry big steelmen passed the Adirondacks by. The country was too wild, its roads too few and its scant settlements too short of labor, they agreed, to make Adirondack mining...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
...years Republic had upped production from 700,000 to 1,400,000 tons a year, or one-sixth of all Republic's needs. Republic thought the day was not too distant when all its steel would be made from Adirondack ores. Its Adirondack ore reserves were big enough to keep the company in pig iron for 50 years...
Other steel companies have followed Republic's lead. All told, mining companies have spent more than $40 million to develop Adirondack mines. Adirondack ores are costlier to dig, but have a richer iron content than those from Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, which still supplies the U.S. with 83% of all its iron. Steelmen, who know that Mesabi has only ten years of high-grade ore production left, think New York's old iron mining country is finally coming into...
Some of Anna's fame as an expert on labor relations comes from her exploits: she loves to put on overalls and hip boots to crawl into a subway tunnel or down an Adirondack iron mine 3,000 ft. But as regional War Manpower commissioner, she has done a first-rate job in New York. There she evolved the "Buffalo Plan" that became the national model for the manipulation of manpower shortages, from Connecticut to California (TIME, Sept. 27). She is an old hand at soft-soaping labor and management into agreements; a 1038 New Yorker profile said...