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Show Columbia Steel Awaits Orders to Start E. M. Barber vice president of the Columbia Steel company, Defense De-fense Plant Division, issued this week a statement stating that early in 1943, in anticipation of a shortage of scrap and pig iron in the Pacific Coast area, the government requested Columbia Steel company to dismantle an idle blast furnace at Joliet, Illinois, Il-linois, recrect the unit at Ironton, Utah, for the necessary coke supply. sup-ply. The required construction work has been completed by Columbia Col-umbia and the plant is being held in readiness for the war emergency emer-gency in the Pacific Coast area necessiitates operation of the facilities. |