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...doubt Eugene Dodds' cover for the April Advocate will boost the magazine's sales at the newsstands. Not only is it fresh and clever, but it very nearly blots out the name of the publication. If the cover of the new issue is hard to read, however, the content is generally straightforward and four of the pieces are good...
Steelmen last week started making noises about a new price boost. In Pittsburgh, National Steel Corp.'s Chairman Ernest T. Weir called in reporters and told them: "The [steel] industry basically does not make enough money. Its prices are too low." Armco's President Weber W. Sebald said that his company is studying its price lists, and expects to make some upward adjustments soon. At a Miami convention of steel distributors, U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless referred to the "sub-competitive price" of steel, and said: "There's no fat left on our financial bones...
Mindful of the possible repercussions on their approaching wage negotiations, steelmen were not thinking in terms of a flat, across-the-board boost; they had in mind individual adjustments on different kinds of steel. They would probably have little trouble getting higher prices from their customers. Even though steel output hit a new record of 28,900,000 tons in 1953's first quarter, supplies were still tight. Such big users as the automakers were still resorting to high-cost "conversion" deals (i.e., buying steel ingots from one company and having them rolled, for a fee, by another...
Government economists figured that a boost of $3 or $4 a ton in steel would cost the U.S. economy, directly and indirectly, about $500 million. The cost of living, however, would be little affected. One reason is that steel products comprise only a small part of consumer purchases; another is that such a price boost would add little to the cost of most consumer items. But the biggest reason is that makers of appliances, cars and other civilian goods, although still scrambling for steel, are in such hot competition that few would dare pass on any added cost to their...
...rough & tumble school of oil where a boss often had to win his arguments with his fists. He quit his native Norway at 15 to go to sea in sailing vessels, got into tankers just as Spindletop and the Auto Age gave the U.S. oil industry its biggest boost. He became a tanker captain for _ the fledgling Texas Co., later built up its tanker fleet and ran Texaco's overseas sales. He became chairman of the board in 1935 arid made deals all over the world to increase Texaco's own oil production...