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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton is a well-dressed, frosty-eyed financier of 56. He left his native home in bleak Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to study for the Baptist ministry. In Cleveland in 1925 he dramatized his power to refinance Trumbull Steel Co. by proving to its officers that Cleveland Trust Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. wrote a letter to Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., saying that they understood that big holding company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

But the U. S. has not been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Over 80% of the U. S.'s annual tin imports (more than 75,000 tons in a "normal" year, 45% of the world's yearly production) comes from Asia, 18% from Europe, practically all of it is smelted in the British and Dutch empires. War at sea might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates is pitting new U. S. smelting practice against the rutted methods of the British trust. Freight, insurance and greater demand have so far pushed the New York tin price approximately 29% above London. In spite of the ore handicap, Phelps Dodge can more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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