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...Although electric furnaces account for only about 2% of total U. S. steel production, they turn out 20% of all alloy steel...
...Motor Car Co.; after a stroke; in Detroit. As Ford's right-hand man for 16 years, he designed the Model T. As one of the nation's foremost metallurgists, he sponsored the use of vanadium and molybdenum steels in automobile construction, was busy perfecting a new alloy (amola) at the time of his death...
...returns. Meanwhile the National Resources Planning Board fortified the expansionist position with a steel report of its own. (Author: Louis Paradiso, under the direction of Gardiner C. Means.) Taking the long view of how much growing the U. S. has to do, it estimated pig-iron (and ferro-alloy), steel-ingot and rolling-mill capacity needed for full production at various levels of future national income...
Allegheny-Ludlum's capacity (for nine months) is only 451,500 tons (U. S. Steel's is 20,846,250 tons, Bethlehem's 8,601,600 tons), but almost every ton of it is specialized for making high-cost, hand-tailored alloy steels. These are not ordered from a catalogue or mass-produced at the mill, but compounded like doctors' prescriptions to minute specifications. This year, capacity operations in such industries as automobile, machine-tool, chemical and electrical-equipment makers, plus the aircraft and arsenal boom, are making a seller's market for high-cost...
...enough lead, zinc, and magnesium. That was all. Two-thirds of her iron ore and 85% of her copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...