Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain, Laborites had insisted on placing questions concerning its activities on the Order Paper...
...private yards geared to produce warships (Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Bethlehem Steel, Bath Iron Works, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Electric Boat Co.). Also at or near capacity were the only three private producers of naval armor plate (Bethlehem, U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's subsidiary Midvale Co.) and the Navy's armor factory at Charleston, W. Va. Armor-plate capacity doubled in the past year, would have to be doubled again. Manufacturers of many a needed naval item declined to expand their plants-capacity unless & until they were assured...
Bethlehem is expanding on other fronts too. Bethlehem is one of the four U. S. steelmakers capable of making heavy armor plate. The others: U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's Midvale Co., the U. S. Government's Naval Ordnance Plant at South Charleston, W. Va. All these plants, said Bethlehem's boss, mackerel-jawed Eugene Grace, are adding or about to add to their capacity. Through its shipbuilding division, Bethlehem is also the U. S. Navy's No. 1 private supplier. For the sake of a two-ocean fleet, the U. S. Government is building...
...Wall Street Journal reported: "Wall Street did not follow the rise of Tuesday and Wednesday with any confidence. . . . Much of the buying came from out of town sources where business is scanned as much as the war news." Prominent performers in the rise were potentially big armament producers like Baldwin Locomotive and American Car & Foundry. But traders were still careful about overcommitting themselves for fear of what might happen if France collapsed. First day this week they were reassured. France surrendered, the market reacted by sliding off three and one-half points on the first shock. Then it rallied right...
...Pittsburgh's Pressed Steel Car Co., with a U. S. Government educational order for 15,000 shell forgings of 75 millimetre calibre, has on order a new type of forging machine from another defense producer, Baldwin Locomotive Works. The new equipment will put shell production on an assembly line basis of 170-180 shells per hour...