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...Girdler, Republic Steel's $176,000-a-year Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Board of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, has come to be almost symbolic in steel, the industry he got into because he was homesick. As such, he has come to share the fate of most symbols-sworn by and sworn at. But Tom Girdler's autobiography, told with professional Saturday Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent...
...March 1902, a young Lehigh graduate was working in London as sales engineer for the Buffalo Forge Co. His name: Tom Mercer Girdler. His paycheck: $12.50 a week. One day, from Pittsburgh's Oliver Iron & Steel Co., came the offer of another job with a salary of $1,000 a year. Homesick Tom Girdler snapped it up, caught the next ship back to the U.S. "That," he confesses in his just-published autobiography (Boot Straps, written in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes; Scribner; $3), "is how I happened to get into the steel business...
...Girdler Way. Few U.S. citizens outside of the steel industry ever heard of Tom Girdler until March 1937, when the battle of "Little Steel" began. When U.S. Steel signed a collective bargaining agreement with C.I.O., then bossed by Samson-haired John L. Lewis, Tom Gird-ler's beady eyes bulged with rage. He writes...
Tough Tom Girdler's determination to fight led to more fighting than perhaps he bargained for. Almost one-third of Boot Straps traces the battle of Little Steel from its first ominous rumblings through its bloody climax on Memorial Day, 1937, when Chicago police fired into a crowd of strikers and sympathizers parading past the gates of the Republic plant. (Casualties: 10 dead, 90-100 injured.) Says Tom Girdler...
After decades of experiment in many quarters, a simple, practical method of preventing ice formations on plane wings was announced this week by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Heat from exhaust gases does the trick. Said Chairman Tom Girdler: "The Catalina long-range patrol bombers have been in production several months equipped with the radically new thermal anti-icer." He gave credit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the original idea and part of its development...