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being maintained to the limit of' labor supply. '
Leading Canadian steelmakers now re
port they have only limited capacity available for bars and sheets for the remainder of the year and it is not ex
pected that war contract" cancellations that may be expected when Germany is defeated will have much effect on sup
ply of these materials, as any produc
tion beyond actual war .needs would be absorbed quickly in manufacture 6f consumer goods. Immediately upon the cassation of hostilities postwar projects involving expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars will be started and according to programs already announced some of these will extend over periods up to five years. Much of the better
ment in civilian production schedules will depend on improvement in supply of bars and sheets, while in addition large tonnages of structural shapes and rein
forcing bars also will be involved in the peacetime reconstruction program.
While expansion in Canada’s ship
building activities has been reflected"
in some betterment in demand for steel plates, supply of this material is by no means critical and producers are quot
ing delivery against new orders at the beginning of next quarter. Curtailment in manufacture of agricultural imple
ments, announced in Ottawa last week, will result in some slowing in demand for plates from these consumers, but it is^
understood that demand is being main.-*
tained from locomotive and other rolling stock builders. V- ‘
Merchant p ig1 iron- demand is sus
tained but lacks special feature. Melt- ers are satisfied to order as demands dictate and only a few have established inventories for second quarter. No shortage is reported and blast furnace operators are giving prompt delivery against new orders. Under steel con
trol regulations melter inventories are being held to the 30-day limit, but most users are not interested in building stock piles. Producers also are dis
couraging big tonnage buying, which has been aimed at by a few melters who looked for early price advances.
However, there are no indications of price change and on all contracts prices will be made known at time of delivery.
Pig iron production in Canada is holding at about 67 per cent of capacity.
A rg e n tin a Sets Maxim um Prices on S c ra p .
Decree No. 1143 fixes maximum prices on scrap iron in Argentina at 50 pesos per ton for first class quality scrap iron and at 30 pesos per ton for second class quality. The decree also states that scrap iron is considered as critical material and comes under de
cree No. 29,671, which places critical materials under the control of the Sec
retariat of Industry and Commerce.
STRUCTURAL SHAPES . . .
STRUCTURAL S T E E L PLA CED 7680 tons, 192 hangars, various locations, for
U . S. Engineers, Columbus, O., 4 2 hangars to L uria Steel & T rading Co., New York; 42 to U tica Structural Steel Inc., U tica, N . Y.;
54 to B utler Mfg. Co., Kansas City, M o.; 24 to Bristol Steel & Iron W orks Inc., Bristol, Va.; and 3 0 to Snead A rchitectural Iron W orks, Louisville, Ky.
1650 tons, inert storage buildings, McAlester,
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250 tons, turbine room extension, Rockford, 111., for C entral Illinois E lectric & Gas Co., to Joseph T . Ryerson & Son Inc., Chicago;
Stone & W ebster, Boston, contractor.
120 tons, expansion, Indiana O rdnance Works, Charlestown, Ind., for E . I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc., to Ceco Steel Products Corp., Chicago.
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I t s a v e s m an h o u rs—does away with time-con
suming calculation of air excess or deficiency and all need for experimental adjustments.
I t s a v e s fu e l—indicates instantly any faulty pro
portion of air and fuel.
I t s a v e s m a teria l—makes for greater uniformity, and for less spoilage.
It helps you get b e tte r steel—and more of it.
Advantages of Hays centralized control of open
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REINFORCING BARS . . .
REIN FO RCIN G BARS PLA CED
120 tons, adm inistration and cafeteria building, 500 tons, building 1 6 ,'B u ick Motor Co., Flint, Navy air supply depot, P hiladelphia, to Mich.
Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., through R alph S. Herzog.
Okla., for U. S. N aval A m m unition D epot, to Mosher Steel Co., Houston, Tex.; J. A.
Terteling Co., Boise, Idaho, cpntractor; bids M arch 27.
1000 tons, estim ated, addition, machine shop building, navy, bureau of yards and docks, T erm inal Island, Calif., to Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa.
1000 tons, storehouse, P hiladelphia Navy Yard, to Phoenix Bridge Co., Phoenixville, Pa.
760 tons, sheet piling, pow er station, H avana, 111., for Illinois Power Co., to Bethlehem Steel Go;, Bethlehem , Pa.
625 tons, Cum berland W arehouse Co., Bridge
ton, N. J., to Bethlehem Steel Co., B ethle
hem, Pa.
100 , tons, bridge, Route 13, Law rence County, 111., for state highw ay commission, to Laclede Steel Co., St. Louis; M autz & O ren, Effing
ham , 111., contractor; bids Feb. 24.
REIN FO RCIN G BARS PEN D IN G 1000 tons, boiler and turbine room addition,
C alum et station, Com m onw ealth Edison Co., Chicago.
530 tons, Armstrong Rubber Co., W est H aven, C onn.; Fletcher-Thom pson Co., Bridgeport, Conn., architect in charge.
300 tons, expansion, G opher O rdnance W orks, Rosemont, Minn., for E . I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc.; bids April 24. . 280 tons, Aquia creek bridge, oVfer Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potom ac railroad, near Fredericksburg, Va.
215 tons, state highway project, Lexington, Ky., bids April 27.
168 tons, Algoma Plywood & V eneer Co., Al- goma, W is.; project abandoned.
RAILS, CARS . . .
RAILROAD CARS PLACED
Consolidated Railroads of Cuba, 250 fifty-ton steel box cars, to Mt. V ernon Car Mfg. Co., Mt. Vernon, 111.
1500 tons, inert storage buildings, N aval Am- 108 tons, cooler building, Armour & Co., m unition D epot, Crane, Ind., to Bethlehem Fargo, N. D ., to Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Steel Co., Bethlehem , Pa.; Johnson, D rake ' Inc., Chicago.
& Piper, N ew York, contractor; bids April 3.
125 tons, pipe supporting structures, Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co., P hiladelphia, to Frank M. W eaver, Philadelphia.
100 tons, warehouse for Pennsylvania railroad, Eleventh avenue, New York, to Phoenix Bridge C o .,' Phoenixville, Pa., through J.
Rich Steers, general contractor.
■ U nstated tonnage, six bridge crane, navy, b u reau of yards and docks, Shum aker, Ark., to H am ischfeger Corp., M ilwaukee, $42,906.
STRUCTURAL S TE EL PEN D IN G
900 tons, expansion, U . S. Rubber Co., E au Claire, W is., to Ceco Steel Products. Corp.,- Chicago; G eorge Ai‘ F u ller Co., Chicago, con
tractor; bids April 17.
800 tons, in ert storage buildings, for Navy, Crane, I n d .,.to Laclede Steel Co., St. Louis, through Johnson, D rake & Piper, contractors.
500 tons, high octane gasoline plant, W hiting, I n d .^ f o r Standard Oil Co. of Indiana; to Laclede Steel Co., St. Louis; M. W . Kellogg Co., contractor.
185 tons, Navy: Building, D resden, N.Y., to B eth
lehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa.
3000 tons, boiler and turbine room additions, C alum et station, Com m onwealth Edison Co., Chicago.
600 tons, east addition to factory building, P ratt & W hitney A ircraft Corp., Kansas City,
Mo.; bids April 18. .
700 tons, bridge for New York C entral at Rochester, N. Y.; general contractors' bids closing May 1.
300 tons, warehouses and building, Joliet, 111., for Kankakee O rdnance p lan t; going to wood construction; bids April 4.
350 tons, addition, Blaw Knox Special O rd
nance Division, York, -Pa.
300 tons, sheet piling, bridge protection, In diana H arbor, In d ., for New York C entral railroad; general contract to F itz Simons &
Connell D redge & D ock Co., Chicago.
250 tons, p lan t addition, E lectric H ose &
Rubber Co., W ilm ington, Del.
196 tons, soybean processing plant, F rankfort, Ind., for Swift & Co.; bids April 23.
137 tons, grade separation over Illinois C entral railroad, Kankakee, 111., for state highw ay commission; Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., sole bidder; bids A pril 20.
100 tons for tem porary adm inistration build
ing for Idlew ild A irport, New York.
65 to 70 million tons by Walter S.
Tower, president, American Iron and Steel Institute, is a reasonable estimate.
The United States Steel Corp. esti
mates postwar demand will be about 65 to 70 million tons of ingot steel in good years. However, it calls attention to the fact that in comparison the coun
try had an ingot capacity on Jan. 1, 1940, in excess of 81 million tons and on Jan. 1, 1945, in excess of 95 million tons.
Summarizing all the replies to the questions as to postwar demand, the subcommittee said that all of the com
panies anticipate a postwar demand substantially in excess of prewar de
mand. Immediately following the war demand is expected to be appreciably greater than the average over a long
time period after the war.
With respect to special problems which exist in connection with utiliza
tion of plants in areas where previously no steel plants had been located, the replies from tire steel companies strong
ly emphasize the need for a plant-by- plant study of these problems. Careful market analysis will be required to de
termine the individual plant’s adapt
ability to peacetime production, includ
ing marketing possibilities, effect of transportation costs in competition with other facilities, availability of raw ma
terials, etc.
The majority of steel companies an
swering the questionnaire strongly op
pose tire granting of any special tax priv
ileges, viewing such as government sub
sidies which would threaten private com
petitive enterprise.
Disagree on Plant Disposal Basic disagreement exists among the various steel companies as to whether government-owned steel plants should be sold outright or leased after the war.
Discussing method of plant disposal, the subcommittee points out that re
plies to its questionnaire showed a wide variance of opinion in the industry. In
land Steel Co. for instance, takes the view that plants should be disposed of by sale only in order to get the govern
ment completely out of the business.
American Rolling Mill Co. believes the plants should be sold to private enter
prise at the best possible price. On the other hand, Copperweld Steel Co.
believes that in order to protect the gov
ernment’s interests, new facilities should not be sold, and instead of actual sale, it suggests the plants be leased for 20 years on a tonnage basis.
Other companies replying to the sub
committee’s question as to how disposal should be effected, do not feel that any set rules can and should be established as to sale or lease.
National Supply Co. for instance thinks sale would be preferable but that conditions surrounding each transaction should determine the method of disposi
tion.
Atlantic Steel Castings Co. suggests that many companies wishing to acquire capacity are not sufficiently well en-with respect to most of the questions
asked and that any attempt to answer them would be purely guesswork.
On the other hand, Inland Steel Co.
believes sound policies with respect to disposition of surplus facilities should be formulated on the basis of sustained demand for steel as distinguished from short-term accelerated needs immediate
ly after the war. This company, from past and anticipated population increases, thinks demand for ingot steel of ap
proximately 54 million net tons will be averaged annually in the 30-year period 1945-1975, with a maximum by 1975 of 63 million tons. As for initial post
war demand it believes the estimate of
LOCOMOTIVES PLACED
1-ong Island Railroad, six 600-horsepow er diesel- electric sw itch engines, to Electro Motive Division of G eneral Motors Com-, L a Grange, 111.
Pennsylvania, three 600-horsepow er and two 1000-horsepower diesel-electric switch en gines, to Electro Motive Division of G eneral Motor* Corp., La G range, 111.
Steel Producers D iffer on Plant D isposal Policies
!>; ( Continued -from Page 63) posed by the subcommittee. Bethle
hem Steel Co., for instance, believes that no reliable statistics are obtainable
PERKINS MAN COOLERS are used, not only to bring comfort to workers in hot places, but also to perform cooling functions in hot manufacturing processes.
Perkins Man Coolers are made in sta
tionary and oscillating types, both portable.
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trenched to risk an undue proportion of their resources in acquisition of die fa
cilities and that sucli companies should be granted leases on favorable terms with options to purchase at a fair valu
ation.
Bedilehem Steel Co. advised die sub
committee that purchase of die govern
ment-owned facilities at any price would involve an unusual degree of risk. It suggests diat die government’s interests might best be served by preserving die ownership- of die government for future emergencies rather than to sell these fa
cilities for the nominal price whiph tiiey might bring, since most of them are not readily adaptable to production of com
mercial steel products. To the extent the facilities can be used, Bethlehem suggested diat they be leased, leaving the government in full ownership and control.
The same divergence of views on the question of sale or lease exists witii re
spect to the question of government ex
tension of credit to purchasers or lessees.
American Steel Foundries, Inland Steel and Copperweld oppose extension of such credit, die first two feeling that if die venture was sound, private financing should be available, while Copperweld, while opposing credit for such purchase, believes diat an extension of credit for operating purposes would be highly de
sirable in order to maintain high employ
ment. National Supply Co., on the other hand, feels diat, while credit might be extended by the government to pur
chasers, it is ' doubtful whether credit should be extended to lesees. In any case National insists diat credit should be negotiated widi die intention that it will be refinanced through private chan
nels in a few years.
Object To Pay Widiout Work All of die companies replying to the question with respect to special condi
tions are opposed to any conditions with respect to the level of operations and employment and steel price policies.
They argue no industry could long exist if it is required to pay for services not rendered.
The question whether any company should be preferred with respect to, or excluded from, buying or leasing plants resulted in a variety of answers, Some companies stating diat no prospective buyer should be excluded, while odiers held tiiat those companies now leasing or operating the plants should be af
forded the first opportunity to acquire or lease them.
Replies from die railroads on the ques
tion of freight rates, point out diat die freight rate structure is highly complex, so that the problem posed in utilizing these government plants can best be handled as and when specific informa
tion is available to the purposes to which individual plants arid facilities are to be used, togedier with information in re
gard to general areas in which raw ma
terials will originate, and destination ter
ritories of the manufactured products.
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