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Show mil help mate te steel America reeds ri Mew plants and improvements will cost j one-half billion dollars ! We've been spending 20 million dollars a I j month to improve production facilities . "s. Our peacetime steel production 1 X u 1 VW ff ; has reached a new high . r V ft 4v Mn feS steel than in 1939, the last peacetime year before the war. I , , , C fi X C t 1 - , Jf Even with an increase of nearly 2,000,000 tons in r f v t v " 2s, V'" ' , s v steel capacity since 1940, our mills have been strained s " . v6 ' -1 to supply steel to so many industries for so many i a V"" ? X ' , . - i things ... veterans' emergency housing ... emergencv f s - x , , s v J freight cars ... automobiles ... refrigerators ... stoves V . Tl -'s t i V'SH ; j . .. wire ... pipe ... machinery of all sorts, and count.- 7 V 1 v ' K ? x f V ", ! less other needs. I 1 s, i". l " 1 k t, An added difficulty in meeting present demands was ; , (,t v m " the industry loss of 18 million tons of steel production f J ' i ,Kew' ' resulting from the steel and coal strikes since V-J day. ft f , Until November 1st of this year, U. S. Steel was J - " i !" spending 20 million dollars a month for construction of x; ' -t t - ; new production facilities. During the coming months, ' - v H ' ' f-tC , " 'f ! j we shall continue to spend more than 15 million dollars t. 3V s ' v., : a month gn this expansion program. We have scheduled lXXS' w wi'tZ ' improvements and additions costing one-half billion ; ' v - ? " Z-,, " , r ' LZ' x I dollars ... new blast furnaces ... new coke ovens... v ' " f- T ' v ' ' 'V". 4 new sheet mills ... new wire mills ... new facilities for L " -' " - - , ' 7 I increased production of steel ingots, tin plate and v"- , r,- v " " ! tubular products. f - , , , ' i United States Steel has never failed to increase its ' , , - . --',, ' facilitiesvto help meet the steel needs of the count.iy. " 1 " ' ' I Our steel production is keeping pace with America. y- Js , v ' ' U) J 1 1 I v n ! I ! - j j j j V toJ iasaj .J Lvj u V.sy LJ lJ LJ LJ l-J v lJ l-w-J . ... .. .1 . ...,.J SUeSDMRV COWPNES: AMERICAN BRIDGE COMPANY . AMERICAN STEEL I, WIRE COMPANY CAJJttGlE-KUNOlS STEa CORPORATION COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY CYCLONE FENCE DIVISION FEDERAL SHIfeUILDDtS t DRY DOCK COMPANY . GEARARD STEEL STRJPM COMPANY . NATIONAL lilBE COMPANY OH. IELL SUPPLY COMPANY TENNESSEE COAL, IRON t RAILROAD COMPANY UNITED STATES STEEL EXPORT COMPANY UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS COMPANY UNrTED STATES STEEL SUPPLY COMPANY UNIVERSAL ATLAS CEMENT C0MPAITY VSGMWI BRIDGE COMPANY : i Wodlan4 la Pennsylvania Penniylvanla 1 now approximately approxi-mately S3 per cent woodland. |