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...higher target than the steelmakers' own Joe Magarac: the $2,829,000,000 U.S. Steel Corp., sired by J. P. Morgan the Elder, weaned by Judge Elbert Gary, and now, in its maturity, presided over by a miner's son from Pigeon Run, Ohio, named Benjamin Franklin Fairless...
From the Spinach Fields. On a six-mile peninsula in the Delaware River, a mile below Trenton, the largest steelworks ever built at one time is rising in the rural countryside. It is Big Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...
...Road. He is a diplomat within his own company as well, constantly making the rounds among his 300,000 employees. Describing a forthcoming trip to a subsidiary, Fairless says: "I'll be met at the plane by the president. We'll go to my hotel, and next morning start visiting the plants. There are six plants, so it's a two-day job. So I'll be met again the next morning, and by this time the group may have grown to 25 or so, with a few vice presidents. But in the plant the officers...
County, Pa.,* midway between the site of United States Steel's $400 million Fairless Works and the Kaiser Metal Products plant on the Delaware River. There the Levitts will build Levittown, Pa., a 16,000-home community second only in size to their Long Island Levittown's 17,546 houses...
Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the U.S. Steel Corp LL.D...