Word: bethlehem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler proposed to abolish by law the common industrial practice of quoting prices which include freight charges from a "basing" city regardless of whether the commodity is actually shipped the specified distance (TIME, March 23). U. S. Steel's William A. Irvin and Bethlehem's Eugene Grace spoke for the industry most bitterly opposed to any change in this system...
...immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were currently operating near the industry's average-notable because both Bethlehem and U. S. Steel have large stakes in heavy structural steels and rails, have long run far below the industry as a whole. Bethlehem's Grace, who is never given to overstatement, told Senator Wheeler that "business in this quarter ought to be the highest in some time." Said...
Died. Pauline Faraburgh Schwab, 93, mother of Bethlehem Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab; in Loretto...
Meanwhile the Federal Trade Commission was bringing suit against Bethlehem Steel Co., American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. (U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary), and 13 other steel concerns for refusing to sell a cheap grade of tin plate to tin can manufacturers. According to the Commission, little tin can makers could not afford to buy the better grade of plate used by American Can and Continental Can, with the result that the steel men were creating a monopoly for the No. 1 and No. 2 U. S. can makers...
...world's first, established after the Deluge by King Nemrud, grandson of Noah. A prophecy of Christ's coming was made by Daniel in Babylon, the Chaldean Empire's capital. When Wise Men Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar - Chaldeans all - returned from their expedition to Bethlehem, they became, according to tradition, the first group to spread the Gospel. The tongue in which the Chaldean Rite is still conducted is Chaldeo-Aramaic, which its adherents claim Christ spoke. One of the chief differences between the Chaldean Rite and the Latin Rite is that Chaldeans baptize by immersion...