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...rounding out his private steel plant. He will nearly double the output of his great River Rouge power plant at a cost of $4,000,000, will install $6,000,000 of new cold and hot rolling mills with all accessories. Ford Motor Co. already has blast and open-hearth furnaces, blooming mills and bar mills but it has never rolled finished steel. When the expansion program is completed, the company will have an annual capacity of 900,000 tons?enough, said Mr. Ford, to build 3,000 cars per day without buying a pound of steel off the premises...
...Rank & File Committee was in a belligerent mood, and soon grew more so. They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week." The hard-boiled ex-cavalry officer retorted that in the saddle he had worn enough skin off his fundament to make half a dozen such critics as the Rank & Filers. Next morning he read in the papers an open letter to himself...
...fire, which occurred during a raging snow-storm, started during a meeting of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. The configuration, according to a letter from Margaret, the daughter of President Edwand Holyoke, began in a beam under the hearth in the library. The Governor and many of the Court assisted in extinguishing the fire, as did the President, who fought his way through five-foot drifts of snow clad only in his house clothes, to reach...
...Claus is going to do about the Adams House Chimney. If he descends to fill the stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity...
...University engineer, the Adams House engineer, the janitor, and the plenipotentiary of the Maintenance Department at a consultation around the hearth yesterday, opined that they could blow away the whole trouble, by putting the fan under the fire. Common Room loungers however were skeptical, saying that the smoke would be blown around them stronger and steadier. We suggest a gas-range...