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...almost all steelmaking machinery in electrically operated, but the machinery itself is produced by highly specialized concerns. And in this subcellar of a steel civilization are two companies that together supply most of the biggest and toughest machinery made in the U. S.: United Engineering & Foundry Co. and Mesta Machine Co., both of Pittsburgh...
Both, as U. S. corporations go, are small (United's assets are about $10,000,000, Mesta's $9,000,000). Though both are largely management-owned, both have stock outstanding with a public to which they are virtually unknown. United's contracts for last year included rolling mills for Henry Ford and Carnegie Steel. But it was Mesta that got the Bethlehem contracts last week...
...Mesta boasts that the only limit to the size of a machine part that it can turn out is the carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
Lorenz Iversen, vice president and general manager of Mesta Machine Co., was made president. Machinist Iversen was born in Denmark, went to sea for two years as a machinist, then worked in the U. S. He saw technical training was essential, went to University of Bingen, Germany. In 1902 he returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant...
...Seminary of Economics in Upper Dane Hall. Mr. Julius Klein: "Studies in Spanish Archives with Special Reference to the History of the Sheep Owners' Guild or Mesta...