Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned equipment to replace than its smaller competitors. (Only a month ago it resurrected some old-style hand rolling mills to help handle its huge order book.) Last week word leaked out that Big Steel would install three new continuous rolling mills in its new ($60,000,000) Irvin Works at a cost of over $10,000,000, which is just a drop in the bucket alongside what Big Steel and all the Little Steel companies will have to spend if operations stay at capacity...
...Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January 1, In the industry's tin plate division, which normally loafs after Labor Day, U. S. Steel's modern tin mill, Pittsburgh's huge Irvin works was so jammed that 63 old-fashioned handmills in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been called out of limbo to work...
There is no "Mr. Irving" to profit from all this. A round-faced studious onetime parachutist named Leslie L. Irvin, tried to give his name to the company in 1919, but a stenographer added a final "G" on the incorporation papers. Leslie Irvin, now vice president of the company, was in the midst of things last week, at Letchworth on the active British front...
...begun jumping from balloons in parachutes that opened automatically. In 1918 he was the first man to try using a parachute in a pack that had to be opened after the jumper left the plane. It worked. Les Irvin's first pack parachute was made of cumbersome cotton. Later he aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh...
Taken from a story by Irvin Cobb which had been designed as a vehicle for Will Rogers, sold by M. G. M. to Paramount after Rogers' death, Our Leading Citizen was reshaped by Producer George Arthur not only as a vehicle for bazooka-playing Bob Burns but as a Hollywood version of Broadway's The American Way. Despite the skepticism of Hollywood leftists, cutters left intact most of its supposedly inflammatory scenes, including a pitched battle between strikers and strikebreakers bloodier than any yet seen in the newsreels, a citizens' meeting where a cynical employer (Gene Lockhart...