We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Only STEEL can do so many jobs so well
This Tanker Is Full of Gasoline. The
tank trailer was loaded with 4,700 gallons of volatile gasoline when it overturned, skidded 15 feet, bounced off an abutment and snapped a light pole. The trailer was caved in, crushed and wrinkled, but not a drop of gasoline was spilled. Why? The tanker was made from USS Cor-Ten Steel, a special high strength steel that is IV2 times as strong as standard carbon steel. Incidentally, the tanker was repaired and is now back in service. The owner expects to get eight more years of service out of it!
Observatory Skeleton. This is what an
astronomical observatory looks like before the skin is applied. Naturally, all the important parts are made from steel. The dome is on rollers, and a small five-horsepower motor rotates it to any part of the sky. The shutters (through which the telescope looks) are opened with a one-horsepower motor. Why did they use steel? What other metal is so strong, so stable, or so easy to fabricate?
On the Famous Pecos River. This bridge soars across the Pecos River near Comstock, Texas. The country is still rough and forbidding, as it was when Wild West yarns made it famous. A flash flood wiped out the old bridge, so American Bridge Division of United States Steel erected this new one. Nobody knows more about building bridges.
UNITED STATES STEEL
American Bridge . . . American Steel & Wire and Cyclone Fence . . . Columbia-Geneva Steel Consolidated Western Steel . . . Gerrard Steel Strapping . . . National Tube ... Oil Well Supply Tennessee Coal & Iron . . . United States Steel Homes . . . United States Steel Products United States Steel Supply . . . Divisions of United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Union Supply Company United States Steel Export Company ■ Universal Atlas Cement Company "USS" and MAN-TEN are registered trademarks of United States Steel Watch the United States Steel Hour on TV every other Wednesday (10 p.m. Eastern time). 7-2403
Broadcasting October 14, 1957 • Page 83