Word: bethe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribute, Bethlehem Steel made Grace honorary chairman, and abolished the post of chairman. Named chief executive was Grace's longtime (since 1945) second-in-command, President Arthur Bartlett Homer, 61, a precise and analytical Beth Steel veteran (since 1919) who bossed Bethlehem's World War II shipbuilding program. One of Homer's first pronouncements in his new job: Grace is recovering from his illness, is itching to return as an active adviser...
...general store. He saved enough to attend Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he was class valedictorian ('99) and captained the baseball team for two years. Just before graduating as an electrical engineer, he had two job offers-one from the Boston Braves, the other from small Beth Steel. Grace calculated that a career as shortstop would end at 35 at best; so he went to Beth as a 15?-an-hour electric-crane operator, moved from one muscle-straining job to another. In 1906, Grace's drive struck the fancy of Beth's Boss Charles...
...Medical Center was formed in the summer of 1956, when seven hospitals--the Peter Bent Brigham, the Massachusetts General, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Free Hospital for Women, the Boston Lying-in Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital--combined with the Medical School in an attempt to remedy their common financial problem...
...album also includes such little-known 19th century works as Hans Gram's The Death Song of An Indian Chief (words by "Philenia, a lady of Boston"), John Knowles Paine's Overture to As You Like It and Overture to Mac beth by Henry Fry, who claimed that his mammoth Santa Claus symphony was the longest "unified" instrumental piece on a single subject ever written. Fascinating history, modest music...
...flaw in the Government's case, said Beth Steel, is that the two companies are more complementary, both by geography and by the products they make, than competitive. Bethlehem has plants on the east and west coasts, while Youngstown is concentrated in the Midwest. Youngstown produces many products that Bethlehem does not, e.g., seamless weld pipe, while Bethlehem manufactures steel types not made at all or in any large quantity by Youngstown, e.g., structural steels, rails, castings, stampings, machinery, freight cars, ships. The merger would permit product and geographic expansion that neither company could finance in the tight money...