Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger N. Baldwin '05, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Clarence B. Randall '12, Vice-President, and Director of the Inland Steel Company have been selected to give lectures under the Godkin Foundation on April 25, 26, 28, and 29 on "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict...
...long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs an unheard...
Rippling down the long steel roller table in a shimmer of heat, it comes to the transfer table. If the strip is destined for such heavy duty as steel tanks, it is merely sheared into sections, left to cool. If it is to go into more specialized uses, such as automobile fenders, its processing has barely begun. Shooting down the roller table at 24 m.p.h., it plunges into a slot, is caught by a set of rollers in a circle and, in a red mist it coils itself into a spool, is deposited on a moving belt ready for "pickling...
...industrial history Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. will ever have a place as the man who kept Little Steel from being unionized by C. I. O. in 1937. Tom Girdler hopes never to be in such a position again and one good way to forestall it is to make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre...
...Strip steel (steel rolled into plates and sheets instead of steel in ingot form) is used in an ever-increasing variety of products-tanks, freight cars, automobiles, beer barrels, stoves, refrigerators, signs. Republic's new mill is designed for "tailor-made" production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that...