Word: haucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile 0PM attacked the steel-plate problem from another front. Its steel expert, W. A. Hauck, set off last week on a junket to big-time sheet and strip mills to study whether they might be converted to plate production. Present annual plate capacity is some 6,500,000 tons; it was hoped that 1,500,000 tons could be added to this by conversion right away. One example was announced last week: smart Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel (see p. 74) is rearranging its Great Lakes subsidiary (hot-rolled strip and sheets) to provide 300,000 tons...
Head man and whole show at Flanders Hall is smooth-faced, 25-year-old Sigfrid Hauck. When the firm was incorporated in the fall of 1939, a WPA job had folded under him. He now lives in a comfortable new house. Of 16 Flanders booklets, mainly bitterly Anglophobic, he has unloaded some 22,000 copies at prices ranging from 35? to $2 retail. He expects soon to publish titles "by some very prominent and patriotic Americans," says "I am a great admirer of Wheeler, Lindbergh and men of that caliber...
Says young Sigfrid Hauck: "I have great plans and great hopes. . . . When I get a bestseller, we'll build a garage...