Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading editorial the September Ladies' Home Journal urged all American families to revive the custom of saying grace before meals...
Shortage of scrap put the screws on the whole U.S. steel industry last week. Bethlehem's President Eugene G. Grace gloomed that the situation was "very, very serious," that Bethlehem had been forced to import some of its scrap from Mexico and Cuba, that it now had only two weeks' supply on hand. A Wheeling Steel Co. plant in Portsmouth, Ohio cut production 1,300 tons a week because of the shortage. Cleveland mills were able to buy only 65% of their requirements, were rapidly exhausting their reserves. At week's end Iron Age made a somber...
...reason for the shortage (blamed specifically by Mr. Grace) is that the U.S. shipped 8.222,259 tons of scrap to Japan from 1936 to 1940 (when exports were finally prohibited in October). That scrap is gone forever. Another is the fact that railroads are patching up more old freight cars (ordinarily a big source of scrap), are using many a junk-worthy car for storage of coal. But the chief reason is that the nation's steel mills, breaking one production record after another, are now using scrap at the rate of at least 30,000,000 tons...
...Fairless, Eugene Grace, Leon Henderson, Jesse Jones, John Biggers and Samuel Fuller of 0PM, and James Forrestal of the Navy, agreed to the expansion in two "secret" meetings, from which the news leaked out as quickly as if they had met on the Capitol steps. The money ($800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000) will come mostly from Jesse Jones's newly swollen coffers. Anti-expansionists described the increase as "precautionary." But if Messrs. Grace and Fairless, lately of the "we have plenty" school, had agreed to 10,000,000 tons, they might later agree to more...
...more desire to cooperate with his rivals on price matters than had the young Henry Ford (who has not joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association to this day). For lone Weirwolves, the high-cost atmosphere of the A.I.S.I. is oppressive. But Mr. Weir will continue to confront Messrs. Fairless, Grace, Girdler, et al. at the councils of Steel's Defense Committee, the body which really represents steel in its dealings with Washington...