Steel and Slag [antikvár]

CHAPTER ONE Dubenko, the works director, called in the manager of the open-hearth shiop and handed him a weighty memorandum book—specifications for the mianufacture and rolling of a new grade of steel. "We're shifting to a very complex alloy steel, Comrade Krainev," he said. "Armour plate, for tanks." His tone admitted of no objections; but Krainev did object: "Pyotr Ivanovich, our melters have never han-died such steel before." "Well, they'll handle it now. The war demands it." Deliberately withholding the telegmm received from the People's Commissar, who set a week's time for the fulfilment of this defence assignment, Dubenko added;