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EDITORIAL STAFF E. L. Shaner Editor-in-Chief E. C. Kreutzberg Edilor A. J. Hain Managing Edilor G. W. Birdsall Engineering Edilor J. D. Knox •Steel Plant Edilor Guy Hubbard Machinę Tool Edilor D. S. Cadot Art Editor V olum e 108—No. 13 M arch 31, 1941 ASSOCIATE EDITORS G. H. Manlove W. ). Campbell R E A D E R C O M M E N T S .............................................................................................. 4 Harold A. Knigiit HIGHLIGHTING THIS ISSUE .............................................................................. i9 New Yorl( W. G. Gude I?. K. Price NEWS L. E. Brown e How To Speed Defense Output, Keynote at Detroit Tool Show ............... Pittsburgh Chicago Jurisdictional Issues Cause Leading Defense Strikes .................................... 2.? R. L. Hartford E. F. Ross Steelworks Operations for W eek .......................................................................... 25 Detroit Washington 1 6 A. H. Allen L*. M. I.amm Men of Industry ............................................................................................................ 28 London Obituaries ........................................................................................................... ............. Vincent DelpORT Activities of Steel Users, M akers ............................................................................ 28 ASSISTANT EDITORS Purchasing Division Reorganized To Expedite Defense Procurement 29 Machinery Being Rapidly Installed at Chrysler’s New I ank Arsenał 33 George Urban Iay DeEulis J. C. Sullivan La Verne Nock M any Suppliers for G un C arriag e........................................................................ 38 40 New Yorl{ Price Ceilings, Priority Control Extended to Secondary Aluminum John H. Caldwell G overnm ent Defense A w ards ............................................................................ 42 46 BUSINESS STAFF Structural Steel Use Rcstricted in Canada ...................................................... Awarded American Foundrymen’s Association Gold Medals .................. 47 G. O. I-Iays Business Manager W I N D O W S O F W A S H I N G T O N .......................................................................... 3° C. H. Bailey M IR R O R S O F M O T O R D O M ................................................................................... 35 Aduertising Service New Yor/(..........E. W. Kreutzberg E D I T O R I A L — Flim sy Pretexts for Strikes...................................................... 48 B. C. Snell Pittsburgh ..................S. H. Jasper T H E B U S IN E S S T R E N D ............................................................................................ 49 Chicago ......................L. C. Pelott TECHNICAL Cleueland ...................R. C. Jaenke D. C. Kiefer Survey of Eąuipment for Machining High-Exposive Shell— By Arthur J. W. Zuber F. Macconochie ......................................................................................................... 54 Circulation Manager M aking an Autom obile in O ne H our ................................................................... 74 MAIN OFFICE Arc Welded House Goes Up in Record Tim e ................................................. 76 Penton Building, Clevcland M achining BRANCH OFFICES Dont Let Work Holding Devices Put Brakes on Production— By Guy New Yor/( ....................n o East 42nd St. H ubbard ..................................................................................................................... 52 Chicago .......... 520 North Michigan Avc. Pittsburgh .......................Koppers Building Joining and Welding 62 Detroit .............................. 6560 Cass Avc. Welding Metallurgy Can Be Simplified— By John P. Walsted .................... Washington ....N ational Press Building Materials Handling Cincinnati 1734 .................... Carcw Tower Organizing Handling for Field Erection of Steel Tanks— By I*. L. San Francisco .......... 1100 Norwood Ave. 66 Oal(land, Calif., Tel. Glcncourt 7559 Spangler ....................................................................................................................... London .............................. Caxton House Heat Treating Westminstcr, S.W. I L ight A rm or Plate Is Heat Treated by N e w Process.................................... 69 Progress in Steelmakjng Publlshed by T h e P enton p u b u sh in g C o., Between Heats with Shorty........................ ............................................................ Penton Building, Cleveland, Ohio. E. L. Shaner, Presldent and Treasurer: G. O. H ays, Vice How To Obtain High Concentricity in LightAYalled Tubing— By Ross P rcsident; F. G. Stein eba ch, Secretary. Member, Audit Bureau of Clrculatlons; Asso M cLaren .................................................................................................................... ciated Business Papers Inc., and National I ub- llshers’ Association. Publlshed cvery Monday. Subscrlptlon ln the 80 United States, Cuba, Mexlco and Canada, one “Believe It or Not” . It Makes Square Holes— By Nat Pomeranz year $4, two years $6; European and forelgn countrles, one year SIO. Single copies (current IN D U S T R IA L E Q U IP M E N T ................................................................................... 85 Issues) 25c. Eatered as second class matter at the postofflee 89 at ClevelaDd, under the Act of March 3, 18/9. M A R K E T R E P O R T S A N D P R IC E S ..................................................................... Copyright 1941 by the Penton Publlshing Co. B E H IN D T H E S C E N E S ....................................................................... - ............. IO4 CONSTRUCTION AND ENTERPRISE ............................................................ I 10 IN D E X T O A D Y E R T IS E R S ..................................................................................... J18 PRODUCTION • PROCESSING • DISTRIBUTION • USE 17 March 31, 1941 THE GATEWAY TO AMERICAN SAFETY The Panama Canal, now drawn into the focus oi a covet- ous world* was built for the purpose of expediting Pan- American trade and defense. Credit ior this great engineering achievement was given to Colonel Goethals. On his shoulders rested the respon- sibility of succeeding where others had failed. C&ć* G-T4J' GbcŁfacuCL Let us hope that the broad vision of those responsible for the panama Canal will prove to be a bulwark for our national defense. THE ELECTRO ALLOYS COMPANY CASTINGS rOR HEAT CORROSION ELYRIA * OHIO HIGHŁIGHTING T H IS ISSUE OF H WITH, strikes cutting more seriously into because of stiffening extras. Output of vitally important defense production, anger over galvanized sheets dropped 11 points last week the selfish attitude of many labor leaders is because of the tight zinc supply. Steel out mounting steadily in powerful circles in Wash put last week (p. 25) stood unchanged at the ington and it now appears likely (p. 23) that a rate of 99% per cent of ingot capacity. stern governmental policy in reference to strikes The State Department authorizes exports of shortly will take form. More than 1,000,000 strategie materials and eąuipment (p. 32) to the man-days of work have been lost on army con Netherlands Indies. tracts sińce Jan. 1 because of strikes, the War Department reports (p. 24). Though the labor situation in the steel industry is tense, steel “Don't Let Work Holding Devices Put Brakes company executives feel better over the pros- on Production,” is the theme on which Guy pects than in a long time; this is because of H ubbard, S te el’s machinę tool editor, writes rising indignation in government and among the this week (p. 52). A high- generał public over “racketeering” by labor . , speed machinę tool, he points lnspect,on and ^ ^ bg deddedly ineffi. lead ers. Production cient if the time it saves dur ing the cutting cycle is wast- Most important news last week again came ed during the loading and unloading cycle. from Washington. To expedite defense pro- After attending last weeks Machinę and Tool curement the OPM’s purchasing division (p. 29) Progress Exposition, S te el’s editors (p. 21) has been organized into six fesl that the ąuestion, “How can inspection keep M p . major branches. Five ad- pace with production?” is not going to plague ore r/ce ditional district managers defense manufacturers in 1941-42 as it did in Ceilings Fixed have been appointed by the 1917-18. What tool engineers learned on this Defense Contract Service to occasion about improved manufacturing meth stimulate subcontracting (p. 32). A list ods should result in increased production at of scrap iron and steel priee differentials (p. 25) many plants. is expected to be made public soon. Fer- rotungsten, tungsten powder and tungsten com- pounds last week (p. 30) were placed under a In this week’s article in his series on high- generał priorities system. Priee ceilings explosive shells, Prof. Macconochie (p. 54) pre- and priority control were extended to aluminum sents data covering all shell machining eąuip scrap and secondary aluminum (p. 40); en cou r ment; he also reveals details aging feature is allowance of a margin for deal of a production time study New Home of ers’ profits. of an approved setup. Welded Steel r q LeTourneau’s new home at Toccoa, Ga., is of welded Ice breakers now are hard at work clearing steel. Nat Pomeranz details a new method the way for ship movement on the Great Lakes for making sąuare holes (p. 76). Tests in (p. 47); two more lake ore carriers have been dicate