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...East Boston, the 33,400-ton battleship, U.S.S. New Mexico, onetime "queen" of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and veteran of two wars, went up for sale as scrap...
...Shipments of finished steel in the first six months of 1947 totaled 31,172,157 tons, more than the industry produced in any other comparable peacetime period, and almost as much as it turned out in all of 1939. Meanwhile, steel scrap prices, having climbed during the past three months to their highest level in 30 years, showed a sign of receding. In the key Pittsburgh area, the price of heavy melting scrap in one large sale dropped $2 a ton, down to $40. The widespread prospects of further drops from recent "fantastic" highs, said the weekly Iron Age, "gives...
...Rebuttal. Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...
National Steel's Chairman Ernest Tener Weir figured that his costs since the first quarter, aside from those on coal, had risen $11 per ton of steel. His breakdown: scrap $4, labor $4, fuel oil $1, miscellaneous $1, depreciation $1. Scrap prices, which have jumped over $10 in two months, are now at an alltime high average of about $40 a ton and still rising. Under such conditions, said steelmen, boosts in the prices of finished steel were not only warranted but "imperative...
Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs...