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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin with, you refer to the Lone Star Steel Co.'s blast furnace as the first and only blast furnace in Texas. This is erroneous. Another blast furnace is in operation at Sheffield Steel Co.'s Houston, Texas, rolling mills, though owned by the DPC. You further state that U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma coal mines which supplied coal to Lone Star, and that U.S. Steel wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant at Houston. The Sheffield plant at Houston is not a fabricating plant. It is a rolling mill equipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Government-owned coal mines in Oklahoma. Neither U.S. Steel Corp. nor any of its operating subsidiaries have any fabricating plant at Houston. Sheffield Steel' of Texas has a complete steel works with iron and coke producing facilities at Houston; the company is a subsidiary of the American Rolling Mill Co.-ED. plants along this 50-mile Ship Channel, and it is one of many such projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Maynard, Mass, the American Woolen Co.'s Assabet Mill, world's largest producer of woolen and worsted goods, closed down last week for the first time in eight years. It called the shutdown "an Easter vacation." In Atlanta, the Atlanta Woolen Mills Co. also shut its main branch. But it put no sugar coating on its reason: "We closed because we did not have enough orders to keep going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutdown | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Highest Climb. But this sound & fury signified nothing in the way of price cuts. The magazine Mill & Factory polled businessmen, found that 44% thought prices were too high. But only 15% expected to reduce them by summer. In a nationwide survey, The Wall Street Journal found that virtually no one is going to reduce them now. Profits in many industries were so fat, despite slackening sales, that few were being scared into price cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let George Do It | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...quit. From his three-room suite in Mexico City's gaudy Hotel Reforma, Rosoff continued digging into 1) the earth and 2) politics. Last July he completed a $10 million aqueduct in Puebla, Mexico for the Mexican Government. Now he is building a $45 million steel mill for Paul Shields, another contractor, who will own and operate the mill. He bought controlling interest in a lumber company in Chihuahua. Last summer he teamed up with Mexican bankers, raised $3½ million and bought control of the 500-mile-long Mexico North-Western Railway, which runs from Juarez to Chihuahua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Big Digger | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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