Word: weirton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams hails the process as "the only major technological breakthrough in the steel industry since the turn of the century." Last week Air Products announced three new plants for steel companies. It will build and operate a $10 million plant for Weirton Steel, j a $3,000,000 plant for Granite City Steel, and a $7,000,000 plant for Jones & , Laughlin. Accounting for 25% of industry j sales, Air Products has helped bring the cost of oxygen down from...
...Chicago market. It will process steel from National's Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, where National will add 500,000 tons of capacity, boost its total to 7,500,000 tons, only 500,000 tons behind fourth-ranking Jones & Laughlin. Counting further expansion at Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, W. Va., National will spend $300 million through...
Often paying himself less than his men, young Steelmaster Weir painfully rebuilt the plant, put up another on farm land along the Ohio River near Wheeling. There he laid out streets, schools, homes for a company town called Weirton, which grew into a city...
...Black. By 1929 Weirton Steel Co. was among the world's biggest independent tinplate producers, but Weir was "tired of sawing wood in West Virginia." He put through a merger with Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. and subsidiaries of Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. to form the $120 million National Steel Corp...
...Right. When Weirton Steel Co., which had a company union, was struck, Weir personally polled his men, decided that outside union organizers were responsible, refused to allow a National Labor Relations Board election. National Recovery Act Administrator General Hugh Johnson threatened him with "jail in 24 hours." but Weir stood firm even under desperate White House coaxing. His hot court battle against a key NRA clause forbidding company unions ended in victory. A federal judge held that NRA applied only to interstate commerce and did not cover Weirton, an event widely held as the beginning...