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I said, “Yes, I want to go through before the shift changes. We'll go to your office later.”

So we started right in. We went right into the furnace section first where they received the coke, ore and so forth. I found that not one of these newspaper men knew anything about the making of steel. They lived in Pittsburgh and were brought up in Pittsburgh, but they had no idea how steel was made - didn't have the remotest idea of how a steel mill is laid out. Of course, I did.

We went through it all. I remember snatching a camera man and a reporter back from the jaws of death. There are little one or two plank scaffolds which one or two men can stand on nearby the ladles. This is done so that there can be a place for the foreman or supervisor can stand, watch and perhaps give the signal for the moment to come when the molten iron shall be poured. It is the most dangerous moment in the whole operation. That's when the ladles are fully heated and the ore is fully molten and about to be poured into the troughs where it's made into little ingots. I just had to snatch back a newspaper man who was way out on the edge of this platform. He would have been scalded to death if we hadn't snatched him back. I remember the superintendent said to me, “Thank you. God, it's dangerous taking laymen around a mill like this. It gives me the jitters. If you don't