The U. S. Steel Corp. last week had reason to wish that a minister's son named Talcott Williams Powell had never become editor of the Scripps-Howard Indianapolis Times and gone prowling out of his sanctum in search of news stories. Fortnight ago when a general steel strike threatened, 34-year-old Editor Powell led four of his newshawks to Gary, Ind., U. S. Steel's private stronghold in the Midwest. He wanted to observe the exact layout of the steel mills and to chart lines of communication for covering what looked like a major industrial war....
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