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Show GENEVA STEPS UP SCHEDULE AFTER SEVERAL-DAY LAYOFF The big Geneva Steel plant was starting to build up production again Monday after a week of widely curtailed activity but a resumption of former schedules is still dependent on coal production and late news dispatches from Washington were none too cheerful cheer-ful on this count. The plate mill, silent last week, resumed production today on a curtailed schedule, two turns per day for four days of this week. One more battery of coke ovens making three out of four now producing pro-ducing coke, and another open has been put back into operation, hearth, making a total of five, is now tourning out steel. Plans are drawn to charge another open hearth within the next day or two. The structural mill, which operated op-erated during last week's plate mill shutdown, will be idle this week. It will resume production next week unless the coal situation situa-tion prevents its reopening then. Although the plate mill is starting start-ing up on only an eight-turn schedule sched-ule this week, compared to the 15 it has been operating, it was learned learn-ed the plant plans to build back up to capacity or near-capacity output as soon as the coal situation situa-tion will permit. |