Brush-off

In three years, production of aluminum has risen almost perpendicularly, from 327,000,000 lb. yearly to the whopping total of around 1,000,000,000 lb. in 1942. Production of magnesium has soared from 10,650,000 lb. to 130,000,000 lb. Where steel was once supreme, the light metals and plastics have thrust in a foot, are now wedging in a shoulder.

Last week U.S. Steel's smart, black-haired President Benjamin F. Fairless took a look at what is happening to steel. Said Fairless: "We aren't going to lose our hair worrying about competition of plastics and light metals in the postwar era. Creating facilities doesn't create a market. Just because more aluminum plants have been built doesn't mean aluminum will be a bigger competitor of steel--and we don't think it will. We hope lots of aluminum is built into planes because that will mean more tank cars to carry gasoline for the planes and more use of rails to get it there."

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