While steelmaking has undergone many changes since Bessemer's process was first developed, his accomplishments started great industries which, in peacetime, have made possible our skyscrapers, our networks of railroads, our millions of motor cars and the thousands of everyday articles which we use. And it is this peacetime skill and "know-how" that made it possible for us to build ships, like the new 45-thousand ton Missouri, the latest armor-plate, and, in addition, merchant ships, tanks and guns.

     The development of steel is a fine example of what the persistence of man can do to help build up a great country like ours - as well as to defend it under attack.     ●