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Show Geneva Steel Production Gets Under Way Geneva Steel Co. operations were accelerated Monday when the first real steel was produced since the sale of the plant to U. S. Steel Corporation was consuimated. First of nine open hearth furnaces fur-naces got into production, during the day. The next is to get, under way Thursday or Friday and a third near the end of the month. The slab mall, which breaks ingots in-gots into formed steel which will be used in the plate mill, will resume re-sume operations by July .'!(( and the plate mill will start operations in August. Only one blast, furnace was operated op-erated during the interim period, and now a second of three blast, furnaces is- in production. One battery of coke ovens was functioning func-tioning earlier this summer, while two of four now are opcratinb From a low of 8(X) to !XK) employees, em-ployees, approximately 1250 now are on the pay roll und further rapid rises are ahead, officials reported. |