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...would mean that America's entry into World War II would be determined and timed either by Adolf Hitler who could force Roosevelt's hand by indiscriminate torpedoing of U. S. shipping or else by F.D.R., himself, who could in one fireside chat bring frenzy to every American hearth. Control of her own destiny as well as a British victory is a primary goal of the United States. If ships without men are enough for England's needs, weakened as our merchant fleet and one and a half ocean navy are, we can better Lend-Lease-lose ships than lives...
Outside Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Lackawanna plant, in freezing weather, Polish, Negro and native-born steelworkers angrily marched in a picket line, on strike. Inside, one by one, open-hearth furnaces shut down, production dwindled, came almost to a standstill...
Bessemer furnaces (now unused) could produce 1,965,800 net tons; extended use of the Bessemer flame-control process could produce another 1,000,000 net tons; idle open-hearth and finishing facilities could produce 2,454,395 net tons; idle facilities for making concrete reinforcement bars (mostly in small, independent plants) could be used, releasing 500,000 tons of open-hearth steel capacity...
...Buffalo, Gary, Youngstown, South Chicago, Bethlehem. Pittsburgh, the city of steel, was dark, dirtier than ever as smoke belched from chimneys and rolled along the Monongahela. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, ore was fed into blast furnaces, cooked, tapped out in molten iron streams. Open-hearth and Bessemer furnaces converted iron into white-hot steel which was molded into ingots, rolled and tortured into flat slabs, long, thin blooms. In strip mills, finishing plants, hot metal and cold metal was drawn and pressed into tubes, sheets and ropes of steel-the very sinews of war. Sound...
...tall, redheaded, reticent T. C. I. Chief Robert Gregg announced the 18-month expansion which will boost his pig-iron capacity more than 20% to over 2,000,000 tons. Steelman Gregg will add one blast furnace (boosting Alabama's active total to 191, renovate 18 standing open-hearth furnaces, build 70 coke ovens, install a 140-inch plate mill, modernize all mining operations...