Word: lectromelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave a party last week in Portland. Ore. She fed baked beans to the city's politicos, Navy brass hats and scores of grimy workers. On her guest of honor, decked out in roses, glutted with pigiron, she splattered champagne. After the party, the guest-a $70,000 Lectromelt furnace-went hotly to work turning out steel for Mrs. Shofner's steel casting plant...
...since enlarged her plant (with a $187,000 Government loan), installed the new Lectromelt furnace, and expects to quintuple capacity. Now she plans to enlarge the tiny kitchenette in her plant, where she turns out quick meals for late-working employes, and hopes to can some of the vegetables she grows in the big Victory garden behind the plant. But Mrs. Shofner is no housewife at heart. She says: "The most beautiful thing in the world is a red-hot steel casting in the making...
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