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...years Polish-born Frank Zarzeski has worked in front of an open hearth in a Chicago steel mill. Tired, eternally grimy, Frank Zarzeski still gets mad. Said he: "I think we should open second front now. Knock hell out of Hitler. I hate Hitler. We make lots of stuff here. We get him some...
Until this summer scrap iron and steel have always been abundant, so steelmakers have relied on them for 40 to 60% of the charge in their furnaces. But now the U.S. needs scrap and needs it badly because there are not enough 1) open-hearth furnaces to produce steel at the slower rate required when higher percentages of pig iron are used, 2) blast furnaces to make pig for all the steel. The furnace handicap will be overcome if the sponge-iron process can 'be perfected, since sponge-iron plants can be built more quickly and cheaply than...
...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...