Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week gave steelmen a special pat on the back. They deserve it. At midnight March 31, American Rolling Mill's Middletown division broke all previous monthly records in blast furnace, open hearth and blooming, bar and strip mill departments; Weirton Steel and Republic Steel likewise turned in new records. Meanwhile other industries face complete shutdowns. All refrigerator and vacuum cleaner output will stop April 30, all small electrical appliances on May 31, all lawn mowers and toys (metal and plastic) on June...
...vast steel-expansion program for the West Coast. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem had won the contracts, but they seemed to be in no hurry. Don Nelson remembered a West Coast shipbuilder, Henry Kaiser, who had popped up nine months earlier with a project for building an open-hearth furnace on the Coast, had been gently waved aside. Nelson telephoned Jesse Jones, demanded a loan for Henry Kaiser. He got it in five days...
...homey, handsome dining room at the Treasury Department, with a cheery fire on the hearth, hospitable Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. entertained guests at lunch: grey-haired Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and big, bald Representative Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. They were talking taxes...
Summing up aircraft industry's prodigious wartime growth, Aviation calculated its manufacturing backlog at $8,343,000,000. Biggest was the yule log on Curtiss-Wright's hearth, only $5 million less than a billion. Second largest: Ford Motor Co. (engines, four-motored bombers) with $736 million. Third: Consolidated Aircraft, $725 million...
...Last week five open-hearth furnaces in Pennsylvania and Ohio shut down for lack of scrap...