Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned with exquisite care. Montgomery gave his orders, the day the battle began, that the enemy must be destroyed. This was to be no mere chase across the desert, as in the past, when the British had dissipated their tank strength. This time they kept their armor intact and used it for annihilation...
Steelman Enos and Standard's chairman, Willard F. Rockwell, suggested an unlikely field-armor plate, long considered the restricted province of Bethlehem, Midvale and U.S. Steel. Laborman Golden, who holds no brief for the way most big-time steel companies handle their labor relations, jumped at the idea, explained it to the men. Against the bets of the whole steel industry, Standard began fabricating plate for tanks...
...whose capitalization is only around $3,000,000 and whose total gross in 1941 ran to $13,000,000, led in the formation of a pool of other steel fabricators to do the job. Today the pool comprises 28 companies, 31 plants, and turns put 51% of all tank armor plate made in the U.S. Equally important, the pool makes the plate of special steels which use no precious nickel...
Standard's improvisation of techniques, plus its pooling idea, is acknowledged by the War Department as one of the outstanding production jobs done during the war. Biggest shadow over the operation now is the semicompleted armor-plate mill which lumbering Carnegie-Illinois is putting up in the Chicago area. Desperate for equipment, Carnegie is casting envious eyes at machinery now used by the Stand ard pool. Question now before WPB is whether the pool has not made the new Carnegie plant superfluous...
Deep in the heart of northern California's majestic Siskiyou Mountains last week a little, freckle-faced, 109-lb. girl was doing a man-sized job for the U.S. war effort. Her name: Dorothea Reddy Moroney. Her business: mining chrome-essential in armor plate, shells and machine tools but now one of the scarcest metals...