The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-30
BY s. BURTON HEATH

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 New York. June 30.-There have been attempts Co find a goat for our bottleneck In Etc-i. The OPA. the Industry. President Roosevelt. 0ano Dunn. organized labor and the bankers have been blamed.
 Now that the situation is shap- ing up, it appears that no indi. vidnal and no group is responsible. From a standing start. we tried to do too much too fest. We didn't know what we wanted. what we needed. or what we were going t0
 use 1t for. We tried to win the war without giving up the peace.
 OUTBUTLDHNG THE WORLD
 HN SHIPS, PLANES, GUNS
 Those. really. rae the reasons
 why the gr:atest steei-producing nation. with a capacity almost equal to all the rest Of the civ. iiizcd world, is having nightmares about steel.
 We had a steel industry geared Co peace. Suddenly we set out to
 build more vessels in two years than Great Britain. the traditional maritime power has accumulated ln all her history. We undertook to manufacture in two years more planes. more tanks. more guns, more bombs. more shells. more of everything than the rest Of the World together.
 These things were different than we had been making. and rec qlIired different plant equipment. Moreover, tlscse things required varying types of fabricailng ma- chinesy. lf we were to produce the proper forms of steel in the necessary quantities. we needed to plan in advance.
 We couldn't plan efficiently be. cause we did not know what We would require. Our obteetives were changed by circumstances at frequent intervals. Our sights were raised constantly. as the acuteness. Of the United Nations emergency. and our allies de- penG.nce upon our production, became more evident. PROFESSIONAL CHAPTERS DOING THE BLAMING
 For example. consider ships. We have been told that steel plate shortage slowed up production. In May, l0s2. tho industry turned Dyer 10 the Maritime Commission as many plates as the had been told, Eemi- officially. after F'2aTl Harbor, that they would have to provide ia lpril, May and June combined.
 Whose fanlt2 The steel com~ laFlies exceeded the quota set for hem. Do they blame the dov- 'rnment? Not at all. They con- ider the acceleration of ship c0n- a very proper step | oward beating Hitler.
 In feet, the more one inquiries 1 n responsible quarters about the | iteei situation, the less one finds 1 my but professional caFpers tTy- ng to place blame.
 Instead. the participants arel irving to straighten out the mess, md tllere arc indications that they | lre succeeding,
 As to the prospects. begin Eith | he fact. apparently sound, that we | ,an make more islgot steel than we 1 lctually need. without enlaFging | )ur plant any niops.
 The shortage, then, is ln shaping | apparatus.
 Plate is a headache. But by the md of this year the continuous | "trip mills, which used to make 1 automobile steel. will all have ,cen converted to making plate for | var purposes. There shouldn't be | my bottleneek there.
 As the war building program is 1 the pressing need for 1 tructurnl forms dies naturally. 30 far as tlss prosecution Of the | war is concerned, this is taking | are of Itself.
 In no other field is there a major lifficulty.
 There is one other phase, how- 'yeT. which is important. That Is he scrap situation. This year our teeI plant will fall perhaps six or | even million tons short of its po- IentiaIities because Of shortage Of | iteel scrap, Speaking of the scrap l shortage recently, WIPE Chairman l Donald Nelson declared: e 1t Is l0ps too soon to think Of tapping | he fences, gates and decorative works"
 HALE PIG
 HALF SCRAP
 Tn the American technology, | most mills average to use half pig l ron and half scrap, IL is possible, theoretically, to use al pig iron, lne major pr0duOsF uses three oarts of pig to one Of scrap, Anv 'theF mill about reveFses these pros