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Show of iron and steel has profoundly influenced man's ecenomic, social, and cultural development from the iron age to the present time. It is our eaW wish that Steel Mak-inr Mak-inr in America will afford to students and laymen alike an opportunity op-portunity to become more familiar With the history and operations of the American Steel industry and the products which it today produces pro-duces to serve this nation in an age of steel." U. S. Steel Issues New Illustrated Booklet On Steel United States Steel is distributing distribut-ing a new illustrated book, entitled "Steel Making in America. " The lOOnpage volume was prepared and published toy U. S. Steel in response to thousands of requests which it receives annually from school students and others for up-to-date information about steel making. Steel Making in America is being be-ing sent to science teachers, writers wri-ters and editors, public libraries, high and junior high schools and junior colleges fthroughout the country. Written by Douglas A. Fisher, staff writer in the office of J. Carlisle MacDonald, assistant to chairman, in charge of public relations re-lations for U. S. Steel, "the book describes in simple language the manufacture of steel in the United States from raw materials through finished steel products of every sort. A torief history of the iron and steel industry from earliest days to the present time also is included. In the preface, Board Chairman Irving S. Olds says that "The use |