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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven years K. T. Keller has had only three vacations (fishing). He has cut out figure skating, at which he once excelled, because it took too much time. A rounding paunch has been the penalty, more time for work the reward. He plays golf abominably ("I get quite a thrill if I break 100"), avoids bridge for more than a tenth of a cent "because it gets too serious and I don't have the time to devote to the game...
...playhouse is "the plant." When he is in Detroit he gets to the office at 9 o'clock in the morning, gets out of it as soon as he can get through the mail, to go through one of the factories and to spend long hours in the engineering department. When he is on the road visiting the Chrysler factories outside Detroit, he spends his nights on Pullmans, his days in inspection and in whooping up the sales force. He hasn't had a drink since 1927 when his doctors assured him it was bad for his health...
Steel. Typical of industries no longer making sales last week was Steel, whose customers will be amply stocked against any possible famine if only they can get delivery on orders already placed. Chief worry of the industry right now is how to keep the operating rate (last week: 87.5%, this week 88.6%; buying by consumers took up about 70%) above 85% of nominal capacity without dangerously deferring repairs, cracking up expensive new machinery, running shaky old machinery into the ground. Even small marginal companies like Tycoon J. H. Hillman Jr.'s Pittsburgh Steel Co. were defying the rule...
...roll to strict specifications to sell for only $7 to $8 more. Rail mills are buying scrap to go into rail selling for only $14 more. Small steel companies, buying nearly all their scrap have already passed $5 of this scrap advance on to their customers, are unable to get enough raw material to fill orders even at this advanced price. Scrap is one material Europe has actually bought heavily...
...week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania Railroad's Norfolk & Western Railway has been setting a new coal loading record daily. Mine owners have forgotten restriction agreements, are trying to get onto a six-day week. Chief obstacle: the labor supply, long unemployed and insecure, of Appalachian coal fields is now insufficient. Last week, for the first time since immigration days, mine owners were broadcasting daily appeals for miners and foremen...