Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movement that sounded like another stiff price boost in steel got started quietly last week. Blaming increases in the cost of processing, Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. raised its "extra charges" (i.e., for size adjustments, heat treating, pickling, etc.) on hot-rolled sheet and strip steel by $3 to $15 a ton. Next day U.S. Steel boosted its prices on alloys, and Allegheny-Ludlum said that it would charge more for "several of our special grades...
Both Big Steel and Allegheny-Ludlum said that the bulk of their production would not be affected. But the boost in sheet and strip, which are used mainly in autos, refrigerators, washing machines and other such items, would certainly be painful to users. One bodymaker estimated that the cost of an auto made from steel bought from Great Lakes (which supplies about one-sixth of the industry's flat-rolled steel) would go up about...
...time during the Paris Peace Conference the then U.S. Secretary of State, Jimmy Byrnes, was too busy to talk to Laguerre about an important issue and promised to write out the answer for him during that day's session. At its close an aide handed Laguerre a sheet of paper written in Byrnes's famed old-style court-stenographer's shorthand. The trouble was that not even Byrnes's own aides, who were used to it, could read the script, and the Secretary himself was not available to decipher it. The sheet of paper now reposes...
Good Buying. Prosperous (circ. 300,000) Noticias, an afternoon sheet, was a logical buy for Eva's holding company, Editorial Democracia, which already owned the dailies Democracia and Laborista. Evita's pet, and purest example of the Peron press, is Democracia, which has built up to a 200,000 circulation and rolls gaily along; losing about 10 million pesos ($2,091,000) a year. Democracia has a staff photographer who specializes in pictures of Evita herself; a dozen or so may turn up in a single edition. For the most part Evita does her editing by telephone. When...
Michigan and Alabama are not even in the running, according to the Williamson dope sheet. They rank nineteenth and twentieth, respectively...