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LAND OF GIANTS (Columbia). The swinging, twanging, oversized chorus known as the New Christy Minstrels celebrates real and mythical American heroes. There's John Henry, of course, along with Paul Bunyan, Casey Jones, Johnny Appleseed, Joe Magarac, Thomas Jefferson, and the blacksmith of Brandywine. Apparently the only lady giant available was a statue ("My name is Liberty...
Among the men who made steel in Pittsburgh, the strongest of all was "Hunkie" Joe Magarac. He was born in an ore mine and grew 7 ft. tall. He could gulp a gallon of prunejack in a single swig, hoist an 850-lb. steel dolly like a paperweight and twist it like a pretzel. One day, when Magarac took off his shirt, fellow workers discovered the source of his strength: Joe was made of steel...
Like legendary Joe Magarac, the U.S. finds the source of its strength in steel. The average American is awakened every morning by a steel alarm clock, hops out of a steel-springed bed, shaves himself with a steel blade, has breakfast cooked on a steel range, rides to work in a steel bus or car, works in a building whose entire skeleton is steel. Virtually every U.S. product is made of steel or from steel machinery, and 40% of all U.S. jobs depend upon steel and its users. Steel is the foundation of all U.S. military power, real...
...expansion will cost at least $6 billion. Even Washington bureaucrats, often critical of the industry's monolithic stubbornness in the past, concede that steelmakers cannot expand any faster without crippling civilian and defense production. And no one has set a higher target than the steelmakers' own Joe Magarac: the $2,829,000,000 U.S. Steel Corp., sired by J. P. Morgan the Elder, weaned by Judge Elbert Gary, and now, in its maturity, presided over by a miner's son from Pigeon Run, Ohio, named Benjamin Franklin Fairless...
...They follow Johnny Appleseed across the land, read about the places he went, and something of the apple industry ("Johnny wasn't very practical," one little girl complained. "He would have gotten apples faster if he'd planted cuttings instead of seeds"). When they come to Joe Magarac, the man of steel (he could squeeze out eight rails of molten steel at once), they study the steel industry...
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