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American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that steel production had dropped from 98.3% to 96% last week, as one plant after another banked furnaces because of the shortage of coke. The estimated drop in tonnage: 74,500-enough tons of steel to manufacture some 80 or 90 submarines. If the strike continued, OPM estimated that steel production would drop to 95% of capacity this week, 85% the next, 60% the next...
According to some boosters of Government health insurance, Chile provides a better system of medical care for its people than the U.S. This week an able Chilean, who should know, flies home from Manhattan after a visit to U.S. medical centers. Young, vivacious Dr. Eduardo Cruz Coke (rhymes with coke), author of Chile's national health law, told reporters how Chile watches after the health of its 5,000,000 citizens. Some hows...
...rate of $7 a day, but Southern operators refused to budge from their offer of $6.21. Reopening of Northern mines, strike-shut for two weeks, would return two-thirds of the nation's soft-coal fields to production. A few steel plants, which use soft coal converted into coke, had already had to shut down some of their blast furnaces. There were still prayers to be answered before peace in the whole defense industry prevailed...
...paid much attention two years ago when Carrier air-conditioned a blast furnace for Woodward Iron Co., subsequently claimed an increased output and a 200-lb.-per-ton saving in coke.* Woodward followed up with two more furnaces, Jones & Laughlin with two. But to most ironmongers air conditioning furnaces at $75,000 looked too expensive so long as 35% of their plant was idle...
When Grand Coulee Dam turned on the juice (TIME, March 31), it was generally said that a titanic wave of public power would soon inundate every Pacific Northwest private utility. But last week one utility laughed in the face of the spillways. Impudent little Portland Gas & Coke Company announced it would build a $1,500,000 addition to its gas by-products plant...