Word: girdlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest electric-furnace operator in the industry* is Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. Last week its operating chief, Vice President Charles M. White, announced that Republic was going to maintain this lead. With one 50-ton-per-shift, two 25-ton, three 15-ton, two 6-ton electric furnaces all going full blast, White announced that his Canton works would soon add two mammoth new electric furnaces with a combined capacity of 100 tons per shift, roughly a 50% increase in Republic's capacity...
Tanks. Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. last week prepared to make armor plate for tanks. Marmon-Herrington Co., truck & tractor maker, is doubling the capacity of its Indianapolis plant, had an order to build light combat tanks for the U. S. Army...
...Helpful Harmful Don't Know Henry Ford 73.6% 12.3% 14.1% Senator Wagner 51.8 5.6 42.6 William Green 49.7 18.2 32.1 Secretary of Labor Perkins 43.4 19.4 37.2 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. 25.5 7.7 66.8 John L. Lewis 32.6 44.6 22.8 Norman Thomas 14.1 20.5 65.4 Tom Girdler 4.4 9.7 85.9 Earl Browder...
Heckled at the annual meeting about Republic Steel's labor policies, Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler retorted to a young woman stockholder: "Some of my best friends are in organized labor...