Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring, to the embarrassment of the State Department, Secretary Ickes refused to permit the export of a promised shipment of helium* for use in German dirigibles. As this act was recalled to Nazi minds last month by the reshipment of 200 empty steel bottles from Houston, Texas to Germany, Secretary Ickes bobbed up again with a speech before the Cleveland Zionist Society. Title: "Esau, the Hairy Man." Excerpts...
Modern Colonnade. Restrained as its glamor mostly is, and unified by a compact and accessible plan, the Fair may well weary its visitors less, refresh them more than if it had serious pretensions. From a structural standpoint it is preeminently stage design, fakery. Two big hangar buildings of steel and concrete and an administration building, all permanent fixtures of the new airport, are exceptions to this rule, and greatest exception of all is the Federal Building, separated from the rest by a lagoon and a parade ground. This is the work of San Francisco's genial, hardbitten, unpredictable Timothy...
...Steel official last week would admit to such plans. But the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio was so worried about its 1,600-man plant that it appealed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Four other Big Steel plants (in Monessen and New Castle, Pa., Elwood, Ind., Cambridge, Ohio) have lately closed...
...expansion and modernization program initiated by former Chairman Myron Taylor in 1928, the Irvin Works cost around $45,000,000, were built in 19 months, have 51 acres under roof. Located atop a hill to avoid floods, the plant will employ 3,750 men at capacity, whisk steel from slab to sheet at a speed of 20 m.p.h. Last week's celebration dealt largely with these marvels, barely touched upon the wider significance of the Irvin Works to the Steel Industry...
...production and lower prices (TIME, Dec. 19). But outright expansion, rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground in May 1937; last week steel production was dawdling at 58% and full-scale operation of the Irvin Works would mean the shutting down of other Big Steel plants...