“We in this country,” he said, “are concerned primarily in maintaining our output of best quality steels for a great variety of purposes. In the production of special steels we easily hold our own… . To-day the progress of the world in the highest and most important branches depends on the production of alloy steels of the highest quality, enabling engineering products to be constructed which were formerly impossible. In this great work our country is most certainly second to none in the world; in fact it has led the way. It is not, however, only in the production of special steels that we occupy such a leading position. We can claim also to be in the forefront in the production of the highest qualities of ordinary—that is, non-alloy—types of steel.”