Word: ryerson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inland Steel Co.'s Board Chairman Edward L. Ryerson was fed up. He thought that there were too many politicians in Washington trying to blame the steel industry for the steel shortage. Last week at a meeting in Chicago of the American Society for Metals, Ryerson let go with a counterblast of his own: "For anyone to suggest that the steel industry should arbitrarily be required to increase its capacity by 20 to 30 million tons during the next two years ... is to suggest a program ... so unrealistic that it is sheer nonsense . . . Our industry is an early target...
...Ryerson barely had time to settle back in his chair when the steel industry's biggest customer, General Motors Corp. President Charles E. Wilson, flung his words right back in his teeth. Said Wilson: "The steel industry has expanded its capacity by only eight times since 1900, while the oil industry has expanded 30 times, the electric power industry has expanded its output by 70 times, the automobile industry about 2,000 times . . . [Steel executives] ought to get the dust out of their eyes and go ahead with the rest of industry...
Koehler, an authority on medieval works, is the present Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer on Fine Arts. He came to Harvard from Germany in 1934, where he was director of the Weimar State Museum and a professor at the University of Jona...