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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...
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...