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...place is the intellectual college graduate more welcome or needed than a the business world," Roger Blough, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, told a Lowell House audience last night...
...Force Chief of Staff and World War II Bomber Command boss, whose B-29s helped devastate Japan, decorated with Japan's Order of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun for his role in building up the country's postwar defenses; U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, 60, given the New York City U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land for the landless," given a medal by President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan...
...speaker was not U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, from whom the words would have seemed familiar, or any of the other usual spokesmen for the steel industry. It was Joseph L. Block, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel and the man who, at President Kennedy's bidding, held the price line in 1962, thus forcing his colleagues to rescind their controversial price hikes...
...Block's statement was a clear indication that some sort of overall steel-price increase is in the offing. It came after months of similar rumblings. Roger Blough first broke a long silence on the subject last July by stating flatly that prices are "not as high as they should be." Next, Bethlehem's Chairman Edmund F. Martin expressed dissatisfaction with the earnings of the second-biggest steel firm and planted a broad hint: "We are still looking at the price situation...
...producer of the products most heavily imported-bars, wires, pipes. Many U.S. Steelmen also complain that Government harassment prevents them from expanding their markets or raising prices as high as they would like. The Government has filed no fewer than six anti trust suits against U.S. Steel since Roger Blough's price fight with President Kennedy...