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...citizens paid little attention to the whole affair. There were good reasons: 1) no big-time officials were involved; the highest ranking wrongdoer found was a plant metallurgist; 2) U.S. Steel's president, smart, suave Benjamin F. Fairless, made no attempt to defend his company, readily admitted "very, very poor management," promised that all involved "will have to walk the plank...
...year "foreman" who raked in a $25,000 bonus was actually Lincoln's chief metallurgist. He developed a new welding electrode that cut production costs 20%, discovered a new way to weld light and heavy armor plate that saves 20% on nickel and chrome...
Said Ford's chief metallurgist, Russell H. McCarroll, last week: "By making an airplane cylinder barrel as a centrifugal casting instead of a forging, we helped break all four of the main bottlenecks in production: materials, time, skilled manpower and machine tools...
...weighs only 11 lb. before machining, because molten metal can be poured into nooks & crannies where no trip hammer can force it. So only 5 lb.-about one-third as much-of steel remain to be tooled away. Result: a 35% saving in skilled man-hours (according to Metallurgist Carl F. Joseph of General Motors), plus a corresponding 35% increase in the capacity of machine tools...
...this was true-in 1918. But the metallurgist's laboratory, now equipped with such things as powerful X-ray machines to study flaws in castings, has replaced the foundry foreman's rule-of-thumb. Says Detroit Metallurgist E. C. Troy, "The foundry engineer has been able to improve his product almost beyond recognition...