Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobile. At week's end, automakers and other hard-goods manufacturers were still mum on any price rises. But in most of these lines, competition alone was not great enough to force them to hold the line. The only encouraging sign came from Armco's fabricating subsidiary, Sheffield Steel Corp. (bolts, wire, nails, etc.). Despite parent Armco's action, Sheffield, which makes its own steel, said that it plans no price rises...
...begin with, you refer to the Lone Star Steel Co.'s blast furnace as the first and only blast furnace in Texas. This is erroneous. Another blast furnace is in operation at Sheffield Steel Co.'s Houston, Texas, rolling mills, though owned by the DPC. You further state that U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma coal mines which supplied coal to Lone Star, and that U.S. Steel wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant at Houston. The Sheffield plant at Houston is not a fabricating plant. It is a rolling mill equipped...
...time has U.S. Steel or any of its operating subsidiaries made a bid for the Government-owned coal mines in Oklahoma. Neither U.S. Steel Corp. nor any of its operating subsidiaries have any fabricating plant at Houston. Sheffield Steel' of Texas has a complete steel works with iron and coke producing facilities at Houston; the company is a subsidiary of the American Rolling Mill Co.-ED. plants along this 50-mile Ship Channel, and it is one of many such projects...
While they discussed ways & means, they got bad news. U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma mines, which supplied coal to Lone Star. (There was no suitable coal in Texas.) If Big Steel, which wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant in Houston, got the mines, Lone Star was done for. Was Big Steel bigger than Texas...
Masefield made in receiving an honorary degree from England's University of Sheffield. John Masefield, often a doctor but never a freshman, still thinks universities are wonderful. Excerpts...