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...mills. In Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...
...first week, the industry hopes to be at 25% of capacity; 40% to 70% capacity should come by the second week, depending on the product and the mill; and by the third week, production should reach 80% of capacity. Better than 90% capacity will take another two to three weeks...
...industry goes back in operation rapidly, the effects of the strike on the U.S. economy will be felt for many weeks to come. Though there are still some 4,500,000 tons of finished steel in inventories in the U.S., much of it is in odd sizes. It will take at least four weeks before the pipelines begin to fill with new finished steel products, five to six weeks before completely balanced deliveries are resumed. The press of demand is so great that the steel companies will fill back orders as they appear on the books on a straight first...
...answer to that key question has long been a subject of controversy because most Government and private statistics do not take into account such factors as price rises, and because they are based on arbitrarily selected short periods of years. Last week the privately financed Committee for Economic Development announced a new set of charts called the Growth Reckoner, boldly designed to avoid the error possibilities inherent in most official U.S. statistics...
...from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley...