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...process 70 cattle an hour, compared with 40 a few years ago, and to do the job with 60 men instead of 150. Jones & Laughlin oxygen steel furnaces in Cleveland recently poured 491 tons of steel in one hour, compared with 60 tons for a similar-sized open hearth shop. Last week Reynolds Metals Co. announced that it had developed a laboratory method of turning bauxite into aluminum without first reducing it to alumina powder,* and that other revisions in its existing production lines will enable it to increase production more than 21% on demand...
...keep ahead of competitors-but the number runs to 13.000 or 14.000 scientists and engineers. Says Gross: "I suspect there's more science and engineering in a button today than there was 20 years ago." In, steel, Europe's new oxygen furnaces have outmoded the old open hearth, which is much slower and costlier, and forced many U.S. steel firms to begin installing the more efficient furnaces...
...Charles Street, Boston, lovely Ingrid serves coffee in front of a cheery hearth and the sounds of Cal Tjader fill the room. Here you are treated as a guest as well as a customer who now can take advantage of a gigantic clearance sale on ski sweaters, stretch pants and equipment...
...airport to meet him. Dropping his royal reserve for once, Leopold later issued a 414-word statement denouncing "those infuriating and scandalous rumors." His wife, he said, had stood by him "with devotion and tenderness for better and for worse. Thanks to her I found again my family hearth...
...bubbling mix. With a roar that would drown out a brace of jet fighters, the oxygen burns off the sulphur, carbon and other impurities in the white mass. Because it takes barely half an hour to cook a batch of LD steel, v. eight hours in the conventional, open-hearth furnace, the oxygen process melts the costs of labor, power and fuel. Production costs are about $3 a ton lower than in an efficient open hearth, and to build an oxygen furnace costs only half as much...