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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among famed steelmen not at the U. S. Steel meeting was Charles M. Schwab, onetime (1901-03) U. S. Steel president, now board chairman of Bethlehem Steel, second largest steel producer. Chairman Schvvab and President Eugene Gifford Grace had held their stockholders' meeting earlier in the month. President Grace had at that time told Bethlehem stock-holders that Bethlehem's March output was greater than its rated capacity, that (recently resumed) dividends on common should continue uninterruptedly. U. S. & Bethlehem. Great is Bethlehem Steel; greater is U. S. Steel. Bethlehem has a capacity of 7,900,000 ingot...
...Radio. The frost on the crops was an act of Providence. The slump in Kolster Radio proceeded from a 1928 earnings statement that showed earnings of 20? a share. Kolster stock has been prominent on the Coast partly through the fact that Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels (TIME, Nov. 19) is chairman of its board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried by the Federal Reserve Board and its anti-speculation activities, frightened by untrue rumors of a great Kolster deficit...
...Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train to carry them there for the great night. Kansas City had found Marion Talley. Kansas...
Engaged. Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish vice-consul...
Elected. Henry J. Cochran of Plainfield, N. J., longtime vice president of Bankers' Trust Co. of New York, cousin of Morgan-Partner Thomas Cochran; to be president, succeeding Albert Arthur Tilney of Plainfield, who becomes board vice chairman...