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...Other proponents of the plan: Housing Suppliers Charles E. Wilson (General Electric), John D. Biggers (Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Ben Moreell (Jones & Laughlin Steel), Melvin Baker (National Gypsum), Clifford J. Backstrand (Armstrong Cork), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), J. Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr. (Weyerhaeuser Timber...
...There is no indication now of a decline from the present high operating rate," said Ben Moreell, president of Jones & Laughlin, the fourth biggest U.S. steel company. "I think production will stabilize at around 100% . . . for the rest of the year," National Steel's Chairman Ernest T. Weir cheerfully predicted: "All steel production records will be broken this year...
Maras then played six years at center and end for the professional Pittsburgh Steelers. At the same time, he also worked as a chemist for the Jones and Laughlin steel company in Pittsburgh...
...Damned If I'm Not." Other steelmen showed that it takes more than the push of a button to get results. Even with higher prices, said Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s President Ben Moreell, his company expects lower profits per ton this quarter than in the first nine months of 1949. As for dividends, said he, over the past 27 years they have averaged only 1.6% of the asset value of J. & L. stock. To give stockholders a fair return of 8% under present tax allowances for depreciation, Moreell figures that J. & L. would have to boost prices...
...great-grandson of James Laughlin, co-founder of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...