Evening star., 1940-09-10
Steel Mills Expected
To Set Production
Record for 1910
Fast Pace Predicted
Well Into 1912 Due
To Huge Demand
By PAUL ID. GESNER,


NEW YORK, Sept 10-The big
gest steel production in history was
forecast for the Nations mills for
the full year 1910.
Trade circles estimated aggregate
outturn for the calendar year might
total 64,306,000 net tons, contrasted
with the previous high of around
6O,830,O0O tons in 1929
Best output of the 193Os was about
55.443 900 tons in 1887.
The 1910 estimate is based on re-
ports production in the first eight
1910 months totaled 40,306,23l tons,
with output in the final four months
expected to average 5000 900 tons
or more monthly.
Production of around 80 per cent
of capacity we'll into 1912 is hinted
as necessary to clear the rising food
of orders stemming from % nor
NAL domestic industrial needs ~
the $4,000, ,0Oo, 900 United States de-
fense program and 90 British En-
pire buying.
A sustained 80 per cent rate, Of
course, is predicated in part on
continuance of the war abroad. with
uninterrupted demand from Great
Britain for metal now running 500,-
900 to 100000 tons monthly.
Plane Workers Needed.
Doubling of the number of men
employed in production of airplanes
is anticipated in the next year or
so. Plane companies simply haven't
enough workers, and when contact
is made with skilled men they are
quickly shunted into jobs. Some
of the big airplane engine COM
panies, looking ahead over stacks
of Government orders piled on new
business desks, are proceeding with
plant expansion. which will triple
skilled worker personnel by 1912.
Employment expansion is going
forward in practically all branches
of the industry and in both big and
small companies.
Beech Aircraft Corp. Wichita,
Kans.. one of the newest to an
nounce forward plans, anticipates
employment of over 1000 men max
ing training planes and transports,
contrasted with the present 1850
employees. when currently planned
expansion of factory space is COM
pleted
Textile Trade Cheered.
The best business in three months
is buoying spirits in the cotton tex
tile trade. Sales of print cloths
and related items In Worth street
last week reached 100000 yards,
or about two and one-half times
current output.
Prices advanced one half cent a
yard over the previous week.
Boosting volume were orders
placed in connection with outturn
of goods for the Army and Navy.
Fall civilian buying, it is indicated,
has not as yet got under way in
earnest.
Record sales of 1l3,106 tons of
copper last Thursday now are re-
vealed to have accompanied the
rise of one-half cent a pound in
the metal. The advance brought
the price back TO lll2 cents. the
level ruling the market from Feb
ruary to early August. The 111a-
cent quotation had been lowered to
II cents August T. when demand
turned slack. Looking back through
the record books, the previous high
for a single days copper sales was
a LOG. .101-ton aggregate rung up in
July. 1886.
BY a coincidence the new biggest
day" In copper sales comes at a
time when industry is buying metal
for orders in connection with S10.-
600 900 900 Government spending for
defense, while the previous biggest
day" in July, 1886. came along just
a month after 81 900. .00O. 900 of SOL
diers' bonus money had been dis
tributed.