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...first half of this year, said Olds, military orders' had claimed "less than 1%" of Big Steel's output, and there had been no major boost since Korea. Even if war orders took 10% of the output, he insisted, the demand could be easily met by the industry-which knows its customers -under voluntary allocations. "We think the industry can do a prompter, more accurate, and fairer job than anyone else," said Olds...
...Began calling up on an individual basis enlisted men with "left-arm" ratings', i.e., specialists in such technical fields as radar and engineering, in its Organized Reserve. ¶ Got ready to boost its Marine Corps fighting strength from 75,000 to 132,000 men-an increase...
Institute trotted out figures to show that in the last 3½ years the industry, financing its own expansion out of profits, had built about $2 billion of new facilities, boosted the nation's total steel capacity from 91.2 million tons to 100.5 million tons a year. Moreover, the industry was in the midst of new expansions which by the end of 1952 would raise capacity to 105 million tons. Example: last week U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to add 1,660,000 tons of capacity to its existing facilities and build a new mill near Trenton, N.J. which...
...Korean supply; most of the 16 vessels will be reconditioned and possibly loaded and ready to make the 5,000-mile trip to Korea by the end of this week. Before the Senate was a bill to provide $25 million to de-mothball 134 more ships, thus quickly boost the nation's whole active merchant fleet to 1,390 vessels. This would be enough to handle the immediate needs of a localized war and leave 2,074 other mothballed merchant ships in reserve...
...Tulsa, J. C. Hunter, president of the Ralph Talbot theater chain, took matters into his own hands. To boost lagging business on 20th Century-Fox's farce railroad western A Ticket to Tomahawk, he renamed it The Sheriff's Daughter, and his box office boomed. Last week Fox officials grudgingly admitted that Theaterman Hunter might have a good point. The studio gave all exhibitors permission to substitute the more inviting title for A Ticket to Tomahawk...