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...price of steel going up again? Last week some steelmen feared so. One small plant had already boosted the price $6 a ton for plate. Said one steelman gloomily: "If the price of scrap doesn't come down, the price of finished steel will have to go up." In Pittsburgh last week scrap jumped $5 a ton to $43, the highest in 30 years. Pittsburgh companies, frantically searching for scrap among dealers in other cities, heard them quote prices...
...economy. With steel mills humming at 97.1% of capacity, highest since June 1944, the industry was ready to chalk up a record peacetime production year. To keep the mills running at the present rate of 84,000,000 tons a year would require about 17,500,000 tons of scrap in the next six months...
...holds out great hopes for it. "If we show good line work in the B.U. game, we will probably be able to hold our own later. We do, in fact, hold high hopes for this squad. They have come along very well, and have cooperated splendidly-but the B.U. scrap is crucial. If the boys come through in this one, we can look forward to a good season with them...
Neither fighter opened up during the course of the scrap and the decision went to Clemmons on the strength of a good boxing performance in the late stages of the third round. Apparently somewhat puzzled in the first round by Fuller's crouching style, Clemmons stood off and threw left jabs. The round went to Fuller by a small margin...
...Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European coke is to go straight into steelmaking. . . . Blast furnaces shall use more scrap. . . . Germany is littered with scrap...