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...surcease of work. Men and officials hurried about, grinned, shook hands with one another, for they had established a new record of pouring steel. In 24 hours their furnace yielded 1,035 tons, better by 22 tons than the previous record, long held by the Thomson works at Braddock...
...alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman over 300 men; at 30 a master supersalesman and general manager of the important Pittsburgh Wire Co. of Braddock, Pa. He knew more about the mining, the processing and the utilization of steel than nine-tenths of his customers, to whom he sold intelligently and helpfully...
...overlove, overambition. The farm was sold under his feet. His boy died. But in his hour of despair, his unwanted wife stepped back into his life, as at his need she had stepped out of it. Thus earnestly, persuasively speaks the sister of A. S. M. Hutchinson, of Luke Braddock, man inarticulate and passionate...
...Probably a dollar has never been as elastic as it will prove in this library war fund," said Harold Braddock, director for the Library War Council. "Not only will each dollar do its full share toward the construction of the library and branch buildings, the installation of tables and chairs in the reading rooms, and the provision of expert librarians, but it also will supply a book, keep that book in circulation until worn out, and then will help furnish a new one to replace the old one. Every dollar in the fund will prove itself 100 per cent. efficient...
...LaTour, chairman, and Miss Helen A. Lamb, G. C. Wilkins and Miss Vera Huy, V. B. Kellett and Miss Mildred Kent, R. Batchelder and Miss Dorothy Prentice, H. B. Griffiths and Miss Rosalind Hurtubit, R. W. Clarke and Miss Marjorie Braddock, C. V. Traphagen and Miss Ruth Farnham...