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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each Morgan Corsair is a little bigger, faster, more comfortable than the preceding one. The Corsair IV, which took ten months to build and cost $2,500.000, is 343 ft. long and has oil-burning engines which develop 6,000 h. p. It has the traditional piratical look of Morgan yachts -long, dark, heavy underneath; paler, suaver in the superstructure. Owner's quarters include a stateroom, office, bath, and big cedar closet. There are five staterooms for guests on the starboard side and a pantry, galley, and laundry to port. The Corsair IV is ten feet longer than...
...preliminary preparation was necessary before the medical school could be opened. Finally, in 1883, needing a pathologist to open the school, the trustees despatched an emissary to Germany to find one. The Germans sent the emissary back to the U. S. "Find Welch," they said. "We have no one bigger...
...significant fact which few U. S. citizens realize is that today Ford is the biggest U. S. name in Europe, bigger than Hoover. Edison or Morgan, vastly bigger than Lindbergh or Stimson...
...complement. Cool, logical, incisive. Mr. Grace quoted figures to show Bethlehem spends money on its plants, increases its payrolls. ''The strength of Bethlehem."' he said, "lies in the strength of local institutions. We create local institutions. We do not centralize. We are going to cooperate for bigger and better manufacturing in Youngstown...
Bethlehem had excellent reasons for wanting Youngstown. Superficially, the formation of Republic threatens its position as No. 2 steel company. Also, superficially. Bethlehem's irrepressible Charles Michael Schwab has never completely forgotten his old ambition to create a steel concern bigger than U. S. Steel...