Word: ingots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
Canny R.S. likes the look of the future; vis-à-vis huge Alcoa, he thinks he has a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition. Reynolds will come out of the war with 160,000,000 pounds of ingot capacity, and with almost twice that much fabricating capacity. Much larger Alcoa will have about as much ingot as fabricating capacity. If aluminum demand should nose-dive as much as 50%, R.S. thinks he can keep his primary plants running full tilt, while Alcoa would have to cut ingot production and finished products in half...
...facilities are strained to the bursting point. In many war centers-Detroit, San Diego, Newport News, Cleveland, Buffalo, Louisville-new facilities have been installed, but dangers of a shortage are still acute. War production wallows in water. Nearly 80 tons of water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed to test each airplane engine. Present rationing plans are mild, would limit the digging of wells only by corporations and municipalities. The aim: prevent unnecessary digging, preserve the underground water supply, insure...
...machine-tool industry, which up to 1940 had never produced more than a half billion dollars worth of products, turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of all aluminum in this country. Bethlehem Steel under the close-lipped Eugene G. Grace proved itself as finely tempered a war instrument as under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry...
...still plagued by the scrap shortage. In August, for example, they operated at only 95% of capacity although they could have hit close to 103% if enough scrap had been available and small plants had been fully utilized. At peak output steelmakers could have made 500,000 additional ingot tons of steel last month...