Word: weirton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Thomas E. Millsop, 56, president of National Steel Corp., fifth largest U.S. producer; and Mrs. Frances Weir, widow of David M. Weir, one of the founders of the Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary); he for the third time, she for the second; in San Francisco...
...become a Marine pilot during World War I. After his discharge, he barnstormed the country as a stunt flyer, returned to the steel business and worked his way up from riveter to production manager at Standard Tank Car Co. He was later hired as a salesman for Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary), climbed steadily until he became Weirton's president in 1936. In 1947 Mill-sop helped incorporate Weirton, W. Va., as a city (pop. 24,000), was elected the first mayor (salary: $1 for the four-year term). Under his administration the city built a hospital...
...drive home the point, Arnall turned down a request by Weirton Steel Co., which has already granted a boost of 16? an hour to its nonstriking independent union, for any increase bigger than the $2.84 the company was entitled to (even before the wage boost) under the Capehart amendment. Said Arnall: This "definitely and completely repudiates, withdraws or reverses" any previous Government promise to the industry. To newsmen, trying to keep up with the giddy on-again, off-again Government offers, Arnall said: "It is rather confusing...
...employees in the corporation is being formed. Some examples: Pittsburgh's Wiegand Co. lends money, interest free, to employees who need it to buy homes, etc.; Allegheny Ludlum Steel holds "open houses" to let families see what their breadwinner does, and production goes up on visiting days; Weirton Steel now tags almost everything moving through the plant to let workers know what it will make...
First link in the chain was Harry Phillips, boss of Steubenville, Ohio's Ohio Valley Tool & Die Co. He bought a 74,780-lb. load of sheet steel from Weirton Steel's West Virginia mill at a price of $5.20 to $5.90 per hundredweight. After the steel was delivered, Phillips obligingly passed it on, at $7.50, to his brother Matthew in New Cumberland, W. Va., who promptly sold it for $9 to Isadore Forman, a Pittsburgh steel broker and "friend of the family...