The steel problem is not yet popularly realized, it is declared, but the figures indicate that because of steel's importance as the very foundation of modern armaments, it is likely soon to burst into national prominence. Efforts to encourage steelmakers to expand plants to an unprecedented degree are under way.
Shortages of steel for domestic civilian usages in automobiles, construction, and countless lesser purposes, it is apprehended, may develop in the war necessity to aid Britain. and simultaneously arm the $096 United States, unless drastic expansion is undertaken. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, former head of the United States Steel Corporation, now director of the division of priorities of the office of production management, is dealing with the problem.
The steel problem as it is pictured in the warnings issued here can be stated in a nutshell. Here are the facts presented by the planning asso-dation's study:
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