A RACY STORY OF STEEL
Coleman, Mcalister
A Racy Story Of Steel PRINCIPIO TO WHEELING, by Earl Chapin May. Harper & Brothers. $3. Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THIS is the racy story of Principio, the first of our Colonial ironworks and...
...Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THIS is the racy story of Principio, the first of our Colonial ironworks and its industrial descendant, the Wheeling Steel Corporation whose products are helping win the war, in the still rowdyish, robustious West Virginia river-town sprawled along the Ohio...
...Marred a bit by its jazzed up style and its somewhat overdone adulation of the mammoth steel company and all its executives, the book nevertheless makes good reading and fills in many gaps in the as yet unwritten Story of Steel...
...Augustine Washington, the President's father, had a small share in Principio, and the grape-shot, cannon-balls, and "Durham" boats, used in the crossing of the Delaware, were as important to the success of the Revolutionary cause as are Wheeling's products to today's struggle...
...May, who has written books about travel, the circus, and prairie pirates, has done a lot of spade-work among the archives and come out with some mighty interesting industrial history...
Vol. 9 • September 1945 • No. 36
