Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hearth & Home...
...plans' success soon had other marginal steel companies pounding on the door of union head-quarters asking for similar help. Golden, chiefly to save union jobs, got Scanlon to Pittsburgh and put him to work installing his plan in these companies. Besides having been an open hearth worker, and a professional boxer, Scanlon had had training as an accountant; his ability to understand business problems won him the respect of management. Whenever a failing company took his advice, they stayed in business...
Most U.S. steel is made in massive, slow-acting, open-hearth furnaces. Last week U.S. Steel Corp. announced tests of a new type of furnace which makes the same kinds of steel a great deal faster...
...Open-hearth furnaces melt together pig iron, scrap steel, iron ore and limestone. The carbon is oxidized by the oxygen in the iron ore and goes up the stack as carbon dioxide. Other impurities are absorbed by the limestone slag on the surface of the molten iron. U.S. Steel's new "Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process...
Dear Lady: Having attained an age when the comforts of home and a warm cheerful hearth have more of an attraction for me than chewing the fat with a bunch of laid-by sourdoughs, I have read everything in TIME including the list of editors, where I ran onto your name. At the risk of being a bit impertinent, is that your name or just your business name? My father's people came from New England . . . and your name recalled pictures of homes there belonging to my ancestors. It kind of animated old memories...