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...Carnegie-Illinois Steel, Bethlehem, American Rolling Mill, American Steel & Wire, Republic Steel, National Lead, Mesta Machine: synchronous condensers, generators, switch gear and electrical equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wheels within Wheels | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...President spent 21 minutes in the Homestead plant (armor plate), 15 minutes at the Mesta Machine Co. At Terrace Village, $14,000,000 project of the U. S. Housing Authority, he gave the keys of a four-room apartment to Steelworker Lester Churchfield, with a brief, extemporaneous speech on the meaning of housing and defense: "As long as they know that their Government is sympathetically working to protect their jobs and to better their homes, we can be confident that if the need arises the people themselves will wholeheartedly join in the defense of their homes and the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Viva la Democracia! | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

United Engineering & Foundry rivals Mesta Machine Co. for the position of largest U. S. maker of steel mill equipment, has assets of $15,500,000 and a 1938 profit of $3,192,000. It built the world's first semicontinuous strip mill for American Rolling Mill in 1926, claims to have produced more of this revolutionary steelmaking machinery than all its competitors combined. President Ladd, a curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japanese Strip | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Japan has several lumbering German-made rolling mills of the type outmoded by the U. S. continuous strip process, and it has one 43-in. continuous hot and cold strip mill (not yet operating) sold it by United and Mesta Machine. But it has no way, except by U. S. purchase, of replacing any parts in this continuous mill or of building another. In theory, its new purchase from United will end some of these deficiencies. Actually Japan will still depend upon the U. S. for tailor-made ball bearings and high-grade forgings which are beyond Japanese imitative technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japanese Strip | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...companies. Last week, sitting in Philadelphia, Judge Joseph Whitaker Thompson granted Canco's plea for a temporary injunction against SEC pending further arguments, this time on the constitutionality of the Securities Exchange Act. Only other pending challenge of the 1934 Act was filed recently by Pittsburgh's Mesta Machine, builder of steelmaking machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canco Case | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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