/ TE E L PRODUCTION • PROCESSING - DISTRIBUTION • USE For forty-eight years-IRON TRADE REVIEW' Æ o n te n tô . August 23, 1937 Volume 101 - No. 8 EDITORIAL STAFF " ‘ o t l r t c , HNiki j E. L. Shaner, Editor , v/': E. C. Kreutzberg, Development Manager A . J. Ham, Managing Editor Reader Comments ............................................................................. n Associate Editors As the Editor Views the News ...................................................... 15 E. F. Ross J. D. Knox G. H. Manlove J. A. Cronin W age Problem Impedes Steel Buying by Railroads ............... 17 W. L. Hammerquist F. E. Gooding China and Japan Negotiate for Steel ..................................... 18 NEW YORK Weirton Workers Demonstrate Against CIO and NLRB . 19 B. K. Price L. E. Browne Metalworking Machinery Exports 62 Per Cent over 1929 . 21 Steelworks Operations for the Week ........................................... 22 PITTSBURGH D. R. James First Half Pig Iron Output Shows Strong Gain ................... 22 Men of Industry ................................................................................. 23 C H IC A G O W. G . Gude Obituaries .............................................................................................. 24 DETROIT Activities of Steel Users and Makers .......................................... 25 A. H. Allen Financial News of the Steel Industry ....................................... 25 WASHINGTON Meetings ...................................................................... 26 L. M. Lamm Heavy Steel Products Gain 27 LO N D O N Mirrors of Motordom ..................................................................... 29 Vincent Delport Windows of Washington ................................................................ 33 How Synchronize School Output with Job Market?— BUSINESS STAFF Editorial ........................................................................................ jg G . O . Hays, Business Manager The Business Trend— Charts and Statistics ............................ 36 R. T. Mason, Circulation Manager Automatic Gas Carburizing of Ring Gears .......................... 38 C. H. Bailey, Service Manager Manufacture of Chilled Car Wheels ......................................... 42 NEW YORK Materials Handling ........................................................................... 49 E. W. Kreutzberg B. C. Snell Welding, etc.— Robert E. Kinkycad ............................................... 57 PITTSBURGH Surface Treatment and Finishing of Metals ............................ 58 S. H. Jasper D. C. Kiefer Progress in Steelmaking .................................................................. 62 C H IC A G O Power Drives ...................................................................................... gg L. C. Pelott W. F. O 'Dell New Equipment Descriptions ........................................................ 70 C LEV ELA N D Recent Publications of Manufacturers ......................................... 76 R. C. Jaenke Market Reports and Prices ............................................................. 77-96 Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations; New Construction and Incorporations ...................................... 97 Associated Business Papers Inc., and National Publishers* Association. Index to Advertisers ......................................................................... I()_. 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W. 40, Roonstrasse 10 August 23, 1937 ^ V-\ 13 i.6 APR 4 2 To Do This Job Well . MONEL Uses These Properties FLASHER PAN FOR SALT CRYSTALLIZATION 1 . Has high strength and stifTness to pre­ vent distortion from internal pressure This oddly shaped pan is electrically (tested to 30 lb.). welded from Monel sheet. It stands a 2. Hardness to resist wearing action of pressure test of 30 p.s.i. The interior salt crystals. had to be made smooth and to stay smooth. The plates were veed from the inside and 3. Rust proof to insure production of welded from inside. Result: it passed all tests, quality salt that is pure and white. and the surface was perfectly uniform. 4. High resistance to corrosion to give long life and lower costs while handling brine. SEATS FOR 5. Uniform resistance to corrosion BOULDER DAM'S avoids roughening of inside polished sur­ GATE VALVES face and banishes maintenance expense. No localized corrosion at welds. Repairs on Boulder 6. D a m w ould be Monel is a stable metal. The heat of costly; so materials welding does not impair corrosion resis­ were specified tance; so no heat treatment is necessary which would post­ to restore it. pone repairs indefi­ 7. Available in all mill forms —ware­ nitely: Pictured here houses at convenient points. is a Monel seated liner for the 32-ft. 8 . Easily fabricated and readily welded. dia. gate valves of the water intake. And For This Job . These 1. High strength to eliminate distortion of seating surfaces under great pressures exerted by the water. 2. Hardness to resist wear during operation of the valve. 3. Rust proof to eliminate roughening of the seating surface and the resulting leakage. 4. Readily forged and machined to required seat shape and fastened with forged and machined Monel bolts. OUR tough jobs... they’re not done by any metal Y because o f just one property. It takes more than just hardness, toughness, or corrosion resistance to give long- lived, dependable service. That’s why Monel’s* unrivalled cial castings, too, for special needs. combination gets it assignments like the welded salt flasher W rite for the condensed rcady-to-use folder on Monel shown here, or the seats for Boulder Dam. Monel is highly and its properties. And for any tough jobs you have, ask resistant to corrosion... that you know. But did you know Inco’s advice. that Monel is also stronger and tougher than structural car­ THE INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY, INC. bon steel? 67 Wall Street New York, N. Y And for the spots where you need “ extras” in any prop­ erty, you get them in special types of Monel created to fill just that need. “ K” Monel, for instance, can be heat treated MONEL to obtain a yield point in excess of 100,000 p.s.i. “ R ” Monel * Monel is a registered trade-mark applied to an alloy containing approximately two-thirds Nickel and one-third copper. This alloy is mined, smelted, refined, is free machining, for use in automatic screw machines. Spe- rolled and marketed solely by International Nickel. 14 /TEEL , ViO*2 £? R E S t A H C H / TE E L L-lâHAPîY / J i*9 T m c*L co- PRODUCTION • PROCESSING • DISTRIBUTION • USE would add $150,000,000 to the railroads’ wage bill. the £d.itot Pending federal legislation that would limit trains to 70 loaded or 125 unloaded cars is a further threat to operating efficiency and earnings. The railroad material and equipment market is attrac­ l/ieusâ the A/eu/ó tive potentially, but it, like many other lines of activity, is held back by uncertainties of political origin. S YET, beating of war drums in the Orient has not affected industry severely. In spite A of the ferocity of the fighting, diplomatic relations between the Chinese and Japanese govern­ One of the oldest metallurgical industries—the ments have not been severed, nor has President manufacture of chilled car wheels— is finding that Roosevelt invoked the neutrality act, which auto­ systematic laboratory procedure is resulting in marked matically would bar certain shipments from this coun­ improvements in methods which already had reached a high state try to the embroiled nations. To date the chief ef­ H o w Research fect of the conflict upon commerce has been a sharp of perfection. Extensive research Pays Its W ay rise in vessel rates (pp. 18, 34) and shifting the des­ yielded a definite heat treating tination of American steel from Shanghai to Hong cycle (p. 42) which provides an Kong or Manila. Due to confusion in Shanghai, Amer­ increase of from 30 to 40 per cent in strength and ican importers are experiencing difficulty in obtain­ a uniformity in strength heretofore unobtainable. A new unit type of pit, now being installed in wheel ing quotations on tungsten ore. foundries, enables the makers to follow the definite heat treating cycle with a high degree of accuracy. The chilled car wheel manufacturers again prove Speaking of foreign trade, exports of machinery the effectiveness of the formula: Develop an im­ have staged an encouraging comeback since the low proved method by research, then reduce it to routine point of the depression. Total exports of all machin­ in all plants. ery for the first six months of 1937 were 3111,247,041 (p. 20), Machine Tool compared with $149,270,363 in the Exports High