how do you do week after week for the past two years it's been my pleasure to report to you on the industrial family that serves the nation united states steel now i want you to have a look at the record i want you to see what's happening i want you to hear from the more than two hundred eighty thousand workers in that industrial family their shattering production records in peace time just as they shattered production records in wartime jim was away they supplied him from the home front turning out steel for tanks instead of cars for guns instead of refrigerators all production was geared to winning the war back from defending america jim is again in the business of building america a strong america so essential to world recovery it's no small order it requires new and better facilities for the new and better st research and technology during the war long before the wars in united states steel was planning the reconversion to peacetime production but let's go back and take out jim robin story from the day he came home the old car that was just one of the things we wanted to replace they wanted new homes new home appliances new refrigerators new washing machine new stove there were so many things we'd all been waiting for look it could be the smallest town in the world but it's my home and i like it the civilians to the tweeds jim dreamed about during those years of service well they didn't fit jim anymore the house didn't fit either there were so many things that german america needed after the war about the safety issue they still look all right come in mighty handy on the job the please thank you steel workers of all ages improving themselves in the skills of making steel preparing for better jobs that better pay united states steel was ready for the returning veteran with intensified classroom and on the job training special program for disabled veterans help many of them acquire advanced skills and earn more than they did in their pre war jobs everywhere across the entire nation you'll find the expanding answer to the challenge the business of building america is the biggest business in the world and it will go on always turning men like jim found their place again in the industrial family that serves the nation i bet you never saw nothing like paris in the navy yeah ever been to the south seas jim is a guy said a red hot billets from the furnace pass through a series of roughing stands for the  for the past forty years various sizes for automobiles springs and typewriter keys for silo bands and concrete reinforcing bars as the red hot steel shoots through the guid peacetime production robey in a mine eighty miles up the monongahela river from pittsburgh an example open since the war is the most modern coal mine in the world more important it's designed to be the becomes one of the basic ingredients in the making do certain pennsylvania clenching cars roll the incandescent mass hour after hour from the coke ovens as construction crews make way for new gary indiana the quenching towers drenched the car loads of coke hour after hour as construction forges ahead hope joins with limestone and iron ore and towering blast furnace regularly the molten metal flows into a giant neighbor just as regularly as chicago illinois work progresses on the new modern blast furnace is too new and they're they're just part of the seven hundred seventy five million dollar construction and modernization program begun since v j day that's a lot of money in anybody's language where does it come from two hundred twenty eight thousand stockholders of united states steel have invested with faith in the future of america they made possible through their savings the plants and the person and with management and employees they make up the productive team that serves you the public they are your next door neighbor your grocer your doctor your local hospital the company behind your insurance policy the college where you send your son or daughter they are all walks of life and all america age hold an average of about fifty shares to them and to all america the challenge of peace held no promise of easy victory up and down and across the land as the men came home to the challenge of peace new mills were being built right beside those in operation in vandergrift pennsylvania for example to find new facilities for the increased production of silicon steel especially allied  processed steel to increase efficiency of electric motors and transformers in the urban works near pittsburgh to find construction of new facilities side by side with the production of sheet steel for your automobile with bridge raters washing machine stoves and the cans on your grocery shelves america demands billions of them a year tin cans are actually steel can ninety eight percent steel and two percent ten in gary indiana others further increase in steel sheet and ten plates capacity production rolls along while the crews install the new machinery as sections of the new mill are finished their immediately put into and increased production birmingham alabama is known as the magic city i'm under there in the fairfield works is the same you'll find north south east and west wind again the story of  duction and construction side by side by them converting a hot rolling mill to a coal reduction mill improving the quality of steel for new and better peacetime products progress anywhere in america is good news for all of us so united states still proudly plays its part in the amazing industrial development of the far west in geneva utah it has purchased the plant it designed built and operated for the government without fear commission during the war wartime production of plates for ships is given away to the production of hundreds of thousands of tons of steel for peacetime uses in the far west in pittsburgh this one is in california there's a brand new mill it's a coal reduction mill designed to keep pace with the rapid tempo of the pacific coast steel products can speed through these new machines at the rate of thirty five miles an hour or than three hundred thousand tons of ten played in sheet steel every year this brand new mill provides a major source of supply for western agriculture and industry there's another one scheduled in los angeles now  dealers build a new one in st louis dream are opening in cleveland los angeles and san francisco down some day for young and restless america that means that it terminations to make way for tomorrow and that same philosophy is behind the development program of united states  is the reason for construction side by side with all high peacetime production america is demanding more of everything it needs and production is being stepped up to meet these demands that are gas oil and water it drills wells it carries the fuel for automobiles airplanes and ships america wants more and then lorain ohio survey engineers for their blueprints mechanics welders with their glass torches construction crews are in and out and everywhere engineers show you a brand new plant in waukegan illinois it's a miracle of planning they are examples of the tomorrow that is here today but the engineers are already restless to improve the job the record of united states feel is everywhere to see and it starts with the very sources  nation is prolonging the potent future another plant another product another dream business of building america is the biggest business in the world and it is always unfinished business in america men can look at our poll in the ground and see a building a factory a finished product they believe in this someday they understand the expanding