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Died. Tom Mercer Girdler, 87, chairman of Republic Steel Corp. from 1937 to 1956, a tough-talking engineer who took over a faltering company, gradually built it into the industry's third biggest producer (after U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel), but is best remembered for his tooth-and-nail opposition to unions, a fight that resulted in the bloody 1937 South Chicago strike (ten killed, hundreds injured) and eventually idled nearly a million workers in seven states for six weeks; of a heart attack; in Easton...
...Filipinos, Chieftain Lapu Lapu became a hero when in 1521 he killed Portugal's pioneer World Girdler Ferdinand Magellan...
...chairmanship of Republic's board goes Girdlers protégé, straight-talking Charles M. White, 65, president of Republic since 1945. The new president is genial Thomas F. Patton, 53, who reflects an era far removed from the fighting, roaring times of Tom Girdler. Patton is the first Republic president who did not come up through production, instead, started as Republic's general counsel in 1936, more recently helped negotiate steel's most peaceful strike. With Girdler gone, Chairman White will set Republic policy, Patton will execute...
...stainless steel sheathing for buildings. Last week in Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. announced plans for a $130 million plant expansion program that will boost its capacity 16% to 11.8 million tons a year within 20 months. Said Republic's President Charles M. White. 64, who succeeded tough Tom Girdler as Republic's operating boss last June: Republic's new expansion, launched only two years after a 17% capacity increase, is "based squarely on careful estimates of better living for more Americans. We are going to take as big a bite of the future...
Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler, 78, militant foe of labor in labor's militant '303, successful boss of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft during the war years, quit his post as Republic's chief executive officer and retired to his Lexington, Ky. horse farm. He remained as board chairman, but the title of chief operating officer and the actual job of running Republic passed to his longtime understudy, Charles M. White...