Word: bethlehem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...
...June) (Jan.-June) Bethlehem...
...directors' meeting in Manhattan, Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel complained that the New Deal was mistreating the steel industry. Secretary Ickes had issued an order that on Public Works projects any purchase of $10,000 or more should , be made from foreigners if the foreign bid was 15% below any domestic bid. Knowing he had a good case, the President took five minutes out in a press conference to explain why the tariff-pampered steel industry had small ground for complaint. Obliged to bid 15% under domestic producers, to pay a tariff duty of roughly 25% ad valorem...
...years later the Governors took steps to prevent them by rules & regulations. Another result of that squeeze was to dump considerable amounts of Stutz stock in the hands of the good friends of Allan Ryan's father-principally Charles Michael Schwab. Except for one short interlude, Bethlehem Steel's aging chairman has had Stutz ever since...
...mass of irrelevant corporate information which was of no interest to anyone-least of all investors, who can hardly be persuaded to read a four-page prospectus in large type. A statement filed on the old form by Republic Steel weighed more than 50 Ib. On the new form Bethlehem Steel registered a $5,.000,000 bond issue in one volume, weighing...