Word: bethlehem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation in Washington found much truth in the story. Russian agents have talked with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and New York Shipbuilding Corp. The State and Navy Departments have been approached for consent to the plan. Because Russia is not a belligerent in any war, the State Department would be forced to grant licenses, the Navy Department's only objections being that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate...
...gave an artificial boom to U. S. shipyards, and at 29 Joe Kennedy became boss of Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Shipbuilding Corp. After the War, as the U. S. merchant marine began to go under for the second time, Joe Kennedy cut loose to make millions on Wall Street and Broadway. In 1935, when President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive U. S shipping, Joe Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime...
Hoping to topple to earth favored champions from eight other colleges, Varsity grapplers will encounter the strongest opposition of the East in the thirty-third annual meet of the Intercollegiate Wrestling Association at Bethlehem, Pa., today and tomorrow...
...shaved by other metals, even steel. Operations in the steel industry this week were expected to hit 84% of capacity, and talk was growing that 1937 would turn out to be a record year. Adding $6 per share, U. S. Steel stock closed the week at $114, and Bethlehem at around $95 per share showed a gain of $5. Though U. S. markets were closed for Washington's Birthday at the start of this week, the metal boom, roared on in London. Said one weary British metal broker at the close: "This has been the maddest day since...
...last week, with reports in for 1936 from nearly all the rest of the steel industry, Bethlehem's figures did not by comparison look so startling. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp. announced the highest earnings in the company's history-$13,171,000 before undistributed profits tax of $629,000 as against $11,136,000 the year before. Tom Mercer Girdler's Republic Steel, busy last week with a deal to acquire Gulf States Steel Co., earned more than twice as much in 1936 as in. 1935-$9,586,000 compared...