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...Fuel. Steelmen could see their coal stocks dwindling too: they were down to a 15-day supply against a normal six weeks. Even U.S. Steel Corp., which usually gets all the coal it needs from its own mines, last week was scouring outside sources...
Looking ahead, steelmen could see the brooding figure of John L. Lewis, and they urged that the biennial soft-coal wage pact discussions start now instead of awaiting March 1, the date now set. The United Mine Workers bided their time...
...large, were curtailed. The landing-mat program, once thought finished, was reinstated, calling for 350,000 tons of sheet steel this year. The maritime and Navy program was also boosted again, just when the War Production Board had expected it to dwindle. Like most people in the cold Northeast, steelmen prayed for warmer weather, predicted they could up operating rates with the temperature...
...still blocked runaway prices. But the cattlemen, unalterably opposed to livestock ceilings of any kind, argued that since the spread between livestock prices and retail beef prices remained unchanged, black markets would continue to flourish, and thus consumers would benefit little from the price control. Likewise the steelmen, who had hoped for more, cried that higher prices were long overdue on other types of steel products...
Make It Run. The most optimistic answer to this question came, not from politicos or steelmen, but from the University of Utah's steel expert, Professor J. R. Mahoney. In a comprehensive 73-page study, he said: the cost of production of pig iron is lower at Geneva than in any other U.S. steel center. As the Geneva Works are the finest in the world, private operators should also be able to turn out steel far cheaper, if a reasonable capital value is placed on the plant. With new-facilities, he saw no reason why Geneva should not undersell...