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...Denver, early one morning this week, some 900 people climbed aboard a special train for Pueblo, Colo., 120 miles away; another special train pulled into Pueblo from Chicago. The visitors joined a crowd of 4,000 to watch the official opening of a $30 million steel pipe mill, first of its kind west of the Mississippi. With a capacity of 150,000 net tons a year, the new mill will turn out seamless pipe for a ready-made market: the oil industry of western U.S. and Canada...
Pueblo's new pipe mill is the latest step in a program of expansion and modernization that in eight short years has converted Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. from a doddering septuagenarian to one of the most vigorous companies in the U.S. steel industry. With $80 million already spent on expansion and modernization, C.F. & I. sales have soared from $56 million to an annual rate of $300 million (fiscal 1953 net: $8,000,000), and employment has more than doubled, to 22,200. The company has added so many new products-ranging from manhole covers to springs for cigarette lighters...
...foreman and say 'How's everything?' and he'd say 'Fine.' Then I'd say 'Fine? What the hell does that mean? How're your costs?' " (C.F. & I. was its own prime contractor on its new pipe plant, saved an estimated $1,500,000 in fees by doing...
Promising Situation. While Franz was straightening out production, Allen built up C.F. & I.'s corporate structure. He bought a plate and pipe plant in the burgeoning Delaware Valley (TIME, June 8), a pig iron and iron ore company in Pennsylvania. Last year he bought Newark's 112-year-old John A. Roebling's Sons Co., primarily a maker of wire rope, and an engineering firm. These acquisitions not only gave C.F. & I. diversification, but also made it a well-integrated organization...
Most crucially, doing proper justice to the 20-odd numbers nine times a week could only leave her voice in shreds; hence she has to pipe down, to substitute byplay on the actress' part for brio on the singer's. She is always personally pleasing, and sometimes more; but At Home with Ethel Waters finds Ethel Waters insufficiently at home with her material...