Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vanished from his lonely hearth...
...marriage, to Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt) stepped down a corridor in Dublin's Leinster House, entered Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's office. Presumably, gaunt, U.S.-born "Dev" scanned the note handed him, hopped good & mad from his chair, sputtering more sparks than the fire on his hearth...
Then the open-hearth furnaces in the great steel mills at Pittsburgh were banked. And rumors came that much more steel would go to civilian use, some time next year. Did this mean that the U.S., only a couple of years past the grim possibility of shortage, was now getting more than enough steel for the six-continent, three-ocean...
...Thanks to a Nelson Rockefeller suggestion, Latin Americans will hear (if by any chance they are interested) a play-by-play description in Spanish. But no listener will be more excited than a Polish immigrant who will be getting ready for the night shift at a Steubenville, Ohio open-hearth steel furnace. His son is captain of the Army team...
...first seven months of this year, U.S. open hearth, Bessemer and electric furnaces turned out 51,242,929 tons of steel. This was more than the world had ever seen before in so short a time, 3% above last year's record for the same period, and less than 3% under their production for all twelve months of 1939, the last year of peace...