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...trouble started when Big Steel madea deal to buy Los Angeles Consolidated Steel Corp. (TIME, Dec. 30). Kaiser complained that this was a rabbit punch to his own Fontana steel plant, which supplied Consolidated. Presumably, Consolidated would now buy from its new owner, Big Steel. About a month ago, Kaiser again felt the hot breath of Big Steel on his neck. Through a dicker with four western railroads, Big Steel had won a $4-40-a-ton reduction in the freight rate on steel shipped from Geneva to the coast...
...chemical equipment, showed little interest in anything else. They guessed that his knowledge of chemistry was self-taught-M.I.T. had no record of him. But he should have been familiar with perchloric acid's dangerous characteristics-he had worked as a chemist at Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel plant and for the Douglas Aircraft...
...steel deal, Kaiser hopes to end one of his prime headaches. Once promised steel by U.S. and National Steel, he has had little delivered so far. Fortnight ago he was forced to start shipping steel to Willow Run from his own plant at Fontana, Calif., an expensive procedure. Now he plans to ship only enough from Fontana for 15,000 cars, expects to be getting steel from Portsmouth by the time these are finished. This should give him plenty of time to put the deal through...
...think that any questions about Kaiser-Frazer's production troubles amounted to persecution. But on the subject of steel, heretofore a sensitive point, Henry became a bit more expansive. Although he had said in March that he had plenty of steel, he is now shipping it east from Fontana...
...Fontana steel costs about $10 a ton more to make than eastern steel now supplying Detroit. Rail transportation will add another $15-20 a ton. The total cost of Fontana steel would thus be $25-30 more than other automobile manufacturers pay, enough to put the Kaiser Special at a serious if not fatal competitive disadvantage...