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Help for Henry. Big Steel's Ben Fairless' retort to the protests was: nonsense. The freight cut would, he said, be passed on directly to consumers. They would get the cheaper steel which the company had promised the West Coast when it bought Geneva. But Kaiser, thrown into a bad competitive position, was undoubtedly not interested in cheaper steel if it meant closing up Fontana. And it might mean just that when the current steel shortage is over...
...brothers. The ladies favored near-nudity, though a handful of sartorial reactionaries came in 18th Century court dress. One man, recently returned from Washington war chores, just wore a seersucker suit with a red sash and a blinding orange tie he had been given by U.S. Steel President Ben Fairless...
...tremendous existing demand for steel products of all kinds" will eventually make Big Steel's operations profitable. To take the bad taste of all this out of their mouths, stockholders then sat down to a buffet lunch with Chairman Olds and Big Steel's President Ben Fairless...
...discovered the charms of 18½?? Harry Truman himself. On Jan. 17 he offered the figure as a compromise in the steel controversy. Its upward curve proved just right: plump enough for Phil Murray (who had demanded 25? an hour), slender enough for Ben Fairless (who had refused to give more than 15?). The perfect 18½ has been the darling of most strike arbiters ever since...
...John W. Snyder, onetime St. Louis banker and now director of OWMR, wanted to settle the strike with a little inflation. Price Boss Chester Bowles, no crony, wanted a line to hold. While they argued, the striking Steelworkers' Phil Murray and the struck Steel Corporation's Ben Fairless could do nothing but cool their heels. More than anyone else, they wanted to come to terms, but that was impossible until Mr. Truman's policy was stabilized...