Word: gadsden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Congressional District when labor-baiting Representative Joe Starnes, the Dies Committeeman who once proposed to investigate Playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) as a Communist,* was defeated by State Legislator Albert Rains. The C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, which had been quietly undermining Starnes in war-booming Gadsden (pop. 36,975) indulged in no loud boasting. Its prime target is lumbering Martin Dies himself, who must fight for his job in Texas' Second District next July...
...near the spots where 6,508,950 tons (11%) of new pig-iron capacity, recommended by OPM last month, is scheduled to arise. In addition to enlargement and rehabilitation of existing blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three...
Absentee. In Gadsden, Ala., city fathers decided not to issue a liquor license for the Royal Palm Cafe, a Negro eating place, whose owner gave his address as Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta...
...Alabama's Muscle Shoals area, northwest of Birmingham, the Reynolds Metals Co. is building a $23,500,000 aluminum plant and a $17,500,000 rolling mill. Planned for the Republic Steel Corp. plant at Gadsden is a $6,000,000 addition to forge 105-mm. anti-aircraft shells. Also in the blueprint stage are a $12,800,000 underground ammunition storage area at Anniston, a $47,997,000 powder plant and $15,000.000 powder-bag loading plant at tiny Childersburg (population...
...Alabama steelmaker is Republic, which took over volatile Gulf States Steel three years ago. At Gadsden and Thomas, its eleven furnaces, 94 coke ovens are straining to turn out 650,000 tons of steel annually. Republic's district boss, Charles L. Bransford, must worry over his low-grade ore reserves. Instead of envying T. C. I.'s higher-grade ore, he built a pilot mill, is experimenting to find better ways to smelt his resources...