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...billion since 1980 in modernizing their facilities. The giants have also slashed their labor forces from 375,000 workers two decades ago to about 125,000 today. All that has paid off in greater efficiency and better-quality steel. "For several years, we used 50% Japanese steel," says Craig Corrington, the manager of a Chrysler stamping plant that punches out steel hoods, roofs and fenders. "We did it because of the quality. Now that the Americans have closed that gap, it just makes more sense to buy domestically...
...Miami Beach there were opinions to fit every account. Said Louis E. Corrington Jr., president of Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.: "Right now, money is the tightest I have ever seen it. It will be worse after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories and go to the banks to borrow." Said Russell H. Eichman, vice president of Cleveland's Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank...
...persons who can prove "need," an idea sold to Administrator Harry Hopkins by President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, June 20). Bids were in and samples received from 1,800 manufacturers. At the Manhattan office of the U. S. Treasury's Procurement Division, WPAdministrator Corrington Gill inspected long racks of garments including tuxedos and racy sports clothes (see cut). He announced that nothing "flashy" would be accepted, that WPA would buy about 1,000,000 quiet garments-durable overcoats and one-pants suits-ranging in price up to $25. Meanwhile, Mr. Gill rented warehouses in Manhattan, Baltimore...
Into Hyde Park next day trooped Mr. Ickes and his new Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West; Mr. Hopkins and his crack statistician, Corrington Gill; Frank Walker, Rex Tugwell, Budget Director Daniel Bell. Morning, afternoon & evening pencils scratched, words flew across the big library table in Hyde Park House. When the visitors set out for Washington late at night Mr. Hopkins looked chipper, Mr. Ickes glum...
Father Cox had the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service speed reporters to Federal Emergency Relief Administration headquarters in Washington. Was FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins "becoming concerned over the birth rate among families on relief?" No! "Was he gathering information on the subject?" No! Assistant FERAdministrator Corrington Gill rushed off a telegram to Father Cox: "FERA has not collected statistics of this nature...
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