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...head of WPB's vital Iron & Steel Branch-the disgusted resignation of whose boss, big Reese Taylor (TIME, Sept. 7), helped precipitate Nelson's action-he picked Hiland Garfield Batcheller, head of small but potent Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp...
...Alloy. The appointment of tall dapper Hiland Garfield Batcheller, 57 to boss WPB's important Iron & Steel Branch seemed to make certain that WPB would throw its hopelessly confusing priority system out the window, set up a rigid allocations plan under which each manufacturer will get a quota that sticks...
When the WPB realignment loomed Secretary Knox called up Hiland Batcheller in Pittsburgh, told him a Government plane would be there at noon to take him to Washington. The reason for this urgency was not hard to guess. Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part...
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...Hiland Garfield Batcheller became president of Ludlum Steel Co. Steelman Batcheller left the sales department of Carnegie Steel in 1916 to become assistant to the president of Ludlum, was elected a vice president three years later. To all steelmen he is famed for his contributions to the development of alloy steels in the U. S. He has long been interested in the Krupp steel works of Germany, arranged for Ludlum to share in the U. S. production of two Krupp metals: nitralloy, a wear-resistant steel used chiefly in the automotive and airplane industries, and Strauss Metal, used for cutting...