Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed...
Last month United States Steel Corp. absorbed Columbia (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Gifford Grace, then in San Francisco, announced his company would acquire Pacific Coast Steel and its subsidiary...
Already entrenched on the Pacific Coast through Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.'s plants in San Francisco, Alameda and Los Angeles, the purchase will bring Bethlehem into closer competition with its five-times greater rival, U. S. Steel. Open to the competitors lie not only the rich Pacific Coast but the Far East...
There is a theory, especially prevalent on the Pacific coast, that when prose is printed in vertical snatches it becomes poetry. A current convert to this theory is Novelist Rupert Hughes, who has written an introduction for a book* by a Miss Virginia Church, California schoolteacher, in which he says she reminds him of Edgar Lee Masters and Sappho. He calls her pages "poems," a definition which may mislead other schoolteachers or puzzle them when they read what are really excerpts from an observant, slightly sentimental diary filled with familiar schoolhouse fauna. Samples...
...Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME...