Word: roach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonard Roach, a Los Angeles County supervisor, has been touting his county's vast (105,000-seat) Coliseum as a big-league park. But he has neglected to point out that the right-field seats would be only 290 feet away from the plate, and balls hit to left field would have to be mailed in. Also, parking space is precious, some lots charging up to $5 a car. And concessions in the Coliseum, without which no club could exist, are already leased...
...help. Hundreds of grimy, gas-masked men, stupid with fatigue, still labored there-probing for severed legs, torsos, heads, in the red glow of the unquenchable fire. Sometimes squads of rescuers staggered for cover when a change of wind whipped the .blistering heat around. Among them was Father William Roach, of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Father Roach died with his rescue squad when, at 1:11 a.m., the High Flyer mushroomed like the Bikini bomb...
Turnabout. What not only surprised but shocked Californians about the deal was that Alden Roach had long preached that the prime need of West Coast industry was cheap steel. To get it, Roach had often implied that the West's dependency on Eastern steel had to be ended. But now Big Steel, which already controls 39% of West Coast steelmaking capacity, was to be fattened up on Alden Roach's own baby, the biggest independent fabricator west of the Rockies...
...Stockholders would cash in on Consolidated's lush wartime operations, not have to risk peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...
...Without Roach, the future of independent steelmen in the West looked dim. The only remaining major Western independent was Henry Kaiser, who cried that Consolidated's sale "could very easily have the effect of eliminating other small producers and myself." But many another industrialist hoped that the increase in Big Steel's fabricating facilities could permit Geneva to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year), ultimately help bring down the price of Western steel...