Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to work. James Roosevelt was frank to admit later that he did not like his first taste of targetry at all. He scrambled out of the car, he said, "faster than I ever got out of anything in my life." In 130-degree heat, which made the metal of motorized units untouchable, the British broke the Iraqi siege of Habbania and drove them right to Feluja on the Euphrates River. There the Iraqi picked positions across the river from the British and dominating the only good bridge leading to Bagdad, 40 miles farther along...
Fact of the matter was that the dispute had grown progressively worse with mishandling. Month ago, OPM officials thought they had ended disputes in Pacific shipbuilding when they got shipyards and A.F. of L. international officers and metal-trades councils: 1) to agree to a standard wage scale, 2) to outlaw strikes and lockouts for two years. Bethlehem Steel, which operates the largest two yards in the area, although it put the terms of the agreement into effect, declined to sign. So did A.F. of L. machinists, who denied the right of their international officers to sign for them...
Against the machinists' insecure but stubbornly held position State and Federal officials and international officers of the A.F. of L. charged with dirty looks and flying words. Most violent word hurler was pontifical John P. Frey, president of the A.F. of L. metal-trades department, who stormed: "If necessary I'll lead [nonstriking craftsmen] through the picket line myself to bust this strike." Back of the San Francisco machinists' sullen defiance was a tradition of autonomy, the conviction that they had the right to act without interference from the parent body. Mr. Frey's threatening attitude...
...prize witnesses was Richard S. Reynolds, whose Reynolds Metals Co. has long been a customer and is now becoming a competitor of Aluminum Co. of America. Said he: "In the late spring of 1940, when Germany invaded the Low Countries, I became very much concerned . . . convinced in my mind that this would be a light metal war. . . . [I called on] Mr. Arthur V. Davis, chairman of the board of the Aluminum Co. of America . . . and ex plained that I felt that Germany, her allies and conquered territories . . . could produce three times the aluminum that his company was producing in America...
Richard Samuel Reynolds, smart boss of Reynolds Metals Co., who will soon be Aluminum Co. of America's one competitor, last week told a Senate committee that he will produce aluminum for 12?-maybe 10?-when his Alabama and West Coast plants get in production. At 10? a pound, the No. 1 light metal of World War II would cost only half what it did last year, before Alcoa's three consecutive cuts brought...