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...Fairless, Eugene Grace, Leon Henderson, Jesse Jones, John Biggers and Samuel Fuller of 0PM, and James Forrestal of the Navy, agreed to the expansion in two "secret" meetings, from which the news leaked out as quickly as if they had met on the Capitol steps. The money ($800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000) will come mostly from Jesse Jones's newly swollen coffers. Anti-expansionists described the increase as "precautionary." But if Messrs. Grace and Fairless, lately of the "we have plenty" school, had agreed to 10,000,000 tons, they might later agree to more...
Problem was how to get the new tonnage. Ben Fairless was put in charge of a committee of seven steelmen to figure this out, report back to 0PM this week. Cheapest, fastest and likeliest method: to add to existing mills, rather than build new ones. Two mills expected to grow much bigger are Bethlehem's 3,200,000-ton Sparrows Point mill near Baltimore and U.S. Steel's Columbia subsidiary in California, both on tidewater. Gano Dunn had figured week before that a 10,000,000-ton "horizontal" expansion would cost $1,250,000,000 and probably require...
Murray has already spoken to auto and aviation through his lieutenant Roland J. Thomas, has spoken to electrical industries through James B. Carey. Last week he got ready to speak to steel. S. W. O. C. has continuing contracts with President Benjamin Fairless of U. S. Steel, and President H. Edgar Lewis of Jones & Laughlin. Either side may reopen negotiations at any time. Murray let it be known that he thought it was time. He also announced that he would send an aide, lanky Clinton Golden, to Manhattan to discuss with President Raoul Desvernine a new contract with Crucible Steel...
...NAMembers jammed Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for the final dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial...
...readiness to handle any emergency without expanding. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler echoed him: "If ev erything in this country was in as good shape as steel to supply the national-defense program and England, there would be nothing to worry about." U. S. Steel President Ben Fairless last fortnight made capital of the 12,000,000-ton steel-ingot expansion which his industry has completed since Depression...