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Show Steel Company Breaks Production Records Since Pearl Harbor Raid j I In the large quantities needed. Demand for high-quality steels for mechanized warfare has increased in-creased the importance of electric elec-tric furnaces. "It is interesting to note," Mr. Olds said, "that U. S. Steel subsidiaries, in addition to greatly increasing their own electric furnace capacity, have designed and built Heroult electric elec-tric furnaces accounting for 75 per cent of the nation's increased increas-ed capacity for alloy and stainless stain-less steels." NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 7 More than 2,000 production records rec-ords have been broken by United Steel corporation subsidiaries in producing 60,000,000 tons of steel since Pearl Harbor, Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of directors, said today. The new records included high marks in production of raw material, manufacture of pig iron, steel ingots and finished products, and outstanding accomplishments in the construction of naval craft. "United States Steel alone shipped more than 82,000,000 tons of ore from the Lake Superior Super-ior district since December 7, 1941," Mr. Olds said. "For five consecutive months in 1943 these shipments shattered all previous monthly ore shipping records for comparable months." In addition to this outstanding production record in mining and shipping of basic iron ore, U. S. Steel has been active in moves for conservation of natural resources. re-sources. Electrolytic tin plating lines, plus facilities for chemical treatment of black plate for containers, con-tainers, have made possible the saving of more than 4,000,000 pounds of the nation's vital tin supply. U. S. Steel's research metallurgists metallur-gists also played an important part in developing national emergency steels, designed to produce high quality results but use much less of such alloys as nickel and chromium. Paying tribute to the men and management of various subsidiary subsid-iary companies for their production produc-tion achievements, Mr. Olds disclosed dis-closed that nearly 100,000 employees em-ployees have entered the armed services and that to replace these workers. and man new facilities,! U. S. Steel has trained approximately approxi-mately 200,000 new employees. "Women," Mr. Olds said, "have played an increasingly important import-ant part in steel production since the beginning of the national emergency. Before Pearl Harbor steelmaking was considered a trade for men, and most of the women employed in the industry were in clerical positions. Today, however, 37,056 women are employed em-ployed by the corporation, a large portion of them in mill jobs formerly held by men." Among outstanding shipbuilding shipbuild-ing accomplishments, Mr. Olds pointed out that U. S. Steel's shipyard at Kearny, N. J., holds all world's speed records for building destroyers and chat its New Port Newark, N. J., yard, constructed in record-breaking time since Pearl Harbor, is no.v delivering a destroyer escort every five days. Among the types of ships being built for the navy are destroyers, giant troop transports, cruisers, destroyer de-stroyer escorts, cargo ships, infantry in-fantry and tank landing craft, tankers, and cargo combat ships. U. S. Steel's inland shipyard on the Ohio River in October delivered de-livered to the navy more LSTS landing ships for tanks than any other inland yard. J Mr. Olds disclosed that to meet I war-time demands, U. S. Steel I embarked upon an $811,(100,000 expansion program. U. S. Steel funds for this program amounte 1 to $330,000,000, with the government govern-ment financing the remainder. The new facilities, plus conversion conver-sion of peace-time equipment to war production, enables U. S. Steel, among other accomplish-, accomplish-, ments, to more than double its 'plate-making capacity and to in-I in-I crease armor plate output sixfold. six-fold. Block - buster aerial bombs, shells, shell casings, steel landing land-ing mats, armor plate for ships and tanks, and special helmet steel are among the important military products manufactured by United States Steel subsidiaries:. sub-sidiaries:. In addition, many of the corporation's corp-oration's tubular and wire products pro-ducts are used extensively in manufacture of aircraft, ships and mechanized equipment. Tubular Tu-bular products and pipe also arc vital to both the production and transportation of petroleum prfjriucfs. The 24 inch pipe for the "' inch" pipeline was pro-du-(l by V. ;;',! in the only mill in the United .State.-; cap-ibb; of in" kin:; pipe of this diameter |