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Last week, with the ice gone at last from the flat water downstream, ships of many nations furrowed the glacier-carved Saguenay. Inbound, most of them carried cargoes of orange-colored bauxite (aluminum ore) from British Guiana. A few were laden to the Plimsoll mark with cryolite from Greenland, fluorspar...
¶ The steel industry suffered a production loss estimated at 900,000 tons of ingots (equal to about 675,000 tons of finished steel). With about one-third of the 400,000 soft-coal miners still out, awaiting the court decision on John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Iron Age...
Union. The persistent shortage of steel prompted 25 small steel-using manufacturers to chip in about $4,000,000 for a steel mill of their own in Phoenixville, Pa. This Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co. had also bought an Apollo (Pa.) sheet mill to process the ingots from Phoenixville. The manufacturers...
The new corporation has already contracted to turn about 40% of its capacity (50,000 tons a month) over to K-F. Under an agreement with Wheeling, the ingots will be rolled into body and fender sheets at its Steubenville plant, only 250 miles from Willow Run. The steel from...
One week after the end of the steel strike, production of ingots was scheduled at only 268,000 tons, or 15.2% of capacity. Although many a plant was pouring far faster than expected, full production was still three weeks to a month away, at best.