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...Steelman Enos and Standard's chairman, Willard F. Rockwell, suggested an unlikely field-armor plate, long considered the restricted province of Bethlehem, Midvale and U.S. Steel. Laborman Golden, who holds no brief for the way most big-time steel companies handle their labor relations, jumped at the idea, explained it to the men. Against the bets of the whole steel industry, Standard began fabricating plate for tanks...
...done a top-flight job of handling military schedules and priorities on the Munitions Board, falls the key job of setting WPB's sights on all production except rubber. To factory-wise Charlie Wilson falls the job of meeting the goals that Eberstadt sets. And to Steelman Batcheller falls the particular responsibility of meeting the key goal, steel production...
...muddle into one sense-making package. The plan had its genesis one evening two months ago when Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch dined with Don Nelson and his Steel Branch Chief Reese Taylor. Baruch, reminiscing about World War I, recalled that he had set up one steel section, under Steelman J. Leonard Replogle (now adviser to the Army & Navy Munitions Board). Replogle controlled steel from priorities to production. He was responsible only to Baruch...
...proud of his achievement as if he had just created Man was Consolidated's new board chairman, roundheaded, profane Steelman Tom Girdler. Tom Girdler, who took over Consolidated two weeks after Pearl Harbor, had two great plants at San Diego. The parts plant makes Consolidated's bits & pieces, from engines down to tiny hydraulic pumps. In the assembly plant they grow into planes-the famed B-24 with more than 3,000-mile range, its four-ton bomb load; the long-range, hard-working PBY-5 flying boat; the massive, four-motored PB2Y2, whose range and bomb load...
...Elroy John Kulas, 61, probably wants to retire to a life of philanthropy (college endowments), music, gardening and good living at his sumptuous country estate outside Cleveland. J. & L.'s chief is tough, Wales-born Horace Edgar Lewis, 59, who has no thought of quitting. An out & out steelman who came up from the mills, Lewis got to be total boss (president and chairman) only four years ago, has ambitions about chasing J. & L.'s competitors, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic. J. & L.'s present 3,944,000 tons annual capacity makes it No. 4 U.S. producer...