The manufacturing of machinery, steel and other metals, and chemicals rose.

In a separate report, the Commerce Department said on Thursday that orders from businesses for industrial machinery, steel and other big-ticket items rose 0.9 percent in November, after a 0.2 percent increase in October.

The bars forming the shears may be either cold rolled iron or round machinery steel; they will require no labor except perhaps squaring up at the ends.

A chapter devoted to the different processes for case-hardening is also included, and special reference made to the adaptation of machinery steel for tools of various kinds, Fourth edition.

Heads made of these materials are not likely to warp, scale, or pit, as is sometimes the case when ordinary grades of machinery steel are used.