Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over the top window of Manhattan's tallest building hover perpetually two genuine angels, standing guard over a soul imprisoned in a steel girder...
...circumstances upset market custom. Resigned to heavy industry stagnation, bulls turned to consumer stocks. Last week they bid up Barren's index of retailing chain stocks to the highest level since the August 1937 bull market. Such perennial market favorites as Chrysler, U. S. Rubber and U. S. Steel were forced to share popularity with stocks which speculators seldom bother with: food stocks-Standard Brands, National Biscuit, Kroger Grocery -even such a market bush-leaguer as Safeway Stores (third in number of stores, second in sales volume among U. S. food chains). Meantime steel, auto, chemical stocks bobbed indecisively...
...chains are exceptional, not typical. Two important evidences of continued inventory trouble-which augurs more production curtailment instead of imminent recovery-were available last week from 1) the continued fall of the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of all wholesale commodity prices, and 2) developments in the textile and steel industries...
...orders will not help materially to up the rate of production in the steel industry. Until the ways are free to begin building, steel will not be wanted. When it is wanted-about 50,000 tons of plain steel and 34,000 tons of armor plate for the 24 ships-it will be only a drop in the ocean. As a market for steel, shipbuilding is a bottleneck due to limited capacity. In 1938, operating at the highest rate since the War, the industry was able to use slightly over 300,000 tons of steel, about...
...partial solution to this problem was explored last week when the U. S. Navy was authorized to open negotiations with the No. 1 U. S. shipbuilder, No. 2 steel unit-Bethlehem Steel Corp.-to buy its West Coast shipyard, helping to free Bethlehem to concentrate on expanding its East Coast shipbuilding capacity hard by its East Coast steel and armor plate shops. Meanwhile Army & Navy men are exploring possibilities of organizing a West Coast steel industry to serve local shipyards...