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Actually, OPA was not as adamant as it seemed. It had been ready to give a $2-a-ton increase (the steelmen asked for $7), had even prepared an order to that effect. Stabilization Director John Collett did not like the order but sent it along to OWMR Boss John Snyder anyway. He turned it down...
...this bookkeeping profit did not conceal the fact that steel company earnings are down. U.S. Steel Corp. was a better bellwether. Steelmen estimated that its net profits in the third quarter will be down to around $12,000,000 v. $16,800,000 last year...
Sinews of Peace. If tired steel workers hoped that the end of war orders would mean a cut in overtime, they were disappointed. Last week, in a back-breaking effort to keep pace with steel orders, many steelmen were still putting in 60 to 96 hours a week. Mills were operating at close to 80% of capacity, highest peacetime production ever, with no let up in sight this year...
...expects to keep an eye on materials through a check on inventories, thus nip any hoarding. Actually, there may be little reason to hoard. Last week, steelmen told WPB: war-expanded steel plants are now big enough to supply all the steel needed for the Japanese war and still have left more than the whole civilian economy used before Pearl Harbor...
...Valley of Decision (MGM), Marcia Davenport's highly colored best seller about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...