Word: ingot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girdler echoed him: "If ev erything in this country was in as good shape as steel to supply the national-defense program and England, there would be nothing to worry about." U. S. Steel President Ben Fairless last fortnight made capital of the 12,000,000-ton steel-ingot expansion which his industry has completed since Depression...
...Meanwhile the National Resources Planning Board fortified the expansionist position with a steel report of its own. (Author: Louis Paradiso, under the direction of Gardiner C. Means.) Taking the long view of how much growing the U. S. has to do, it estimated pig-iron (and ferro-alloy), steel-ingot and rolling-mill capacity needed for full production at various levels of future national income...
...business judge companies by the dollars they earn for each share of their common stock. But steelmen have a score card all their own for the performance of each of the U. S.'s 15 leading steel companies. This is the dollars each earns per ton of ingot-making capacity...
Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
...sheet, rods, tubing and extruded shapes, Reynolds Metals imported about half of its virgin aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity the way a St. Louis bleacher crowd uses pop on a hot day. Like Alcoa's own main furnaces, for which Franklin Roosevelt signed a $68,500,000 TVA expansion bill last week, Reynolds will get its electricity from TVA. Reynolds...