Quick Service for Henry

When Henry J. Kaiser wants something, he says so, in tones as audible as an amplifier. Last week he bawled that the steel industry had ganged up to keep Kaiser-Frazer Corp. from making autos by refusing to sell it any steel. He asked Attorney General Thomas C. Clark to end "discrimination" against K-F. His partner Joe Frazer talked darkly that Republic Steel's Tom Girdler had said Kaiser's quick signing of labor contracts was "one reason why you are not getting any steel." Tom Girdler snorted: nonsense.

Other steelmakers said they were having a hard time meeting the demands of old customers, let alone those of newcomers. Nevertheless, the K-F hullabaloo worked its usual magic. At week's end Kaiser announced triumphantly that U.S. Steel and Great Lakes Steel (subsidiary of National Steel) had promised enough steel. Now Joe & Henry would not have to depend on aluminum. Nevertheless, they obligingly piled some 460 lbs. atop a piece to show its strength (see cut).

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