Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steelmen for the annual stockholders' meeting of the most gilded of steel companies. Had all U. S. Steel Corp. stock owners attended, those present would have totaled 100,000. Most, however, stayed at home; all knew that the main business of the meeting was to increase authorized common stock from $753,321,000 to $1,250,000,000 and reduce the preferred from $550,000,000 to $400,000,000. This was accomplished by the unanimous vote of the 200 (representing 2,783,890 shares preferred, 5,515,050 shares common) stockholders present. Thus U. S. Steel...
...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 tons; U. S. of 23,000,000 ingot tons. In 1928, Bethlehem earned $18,585,922; U. S. earned $114,173,775. Bethlehem earnings amounted...
...Steel Co. Cleveland's steel company earned nearly $4,000,000 in 1928, its $3.82 per share showing marked improvement over $1.02 in 1927. With the automobile industry a leading customer, the company has enjoyed a record first quarter and expects soon to resume common dividends...
Last week's N. C. E. meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were...
...concentrating in the sciences have long suffered from having to do virtually all their work at a time when their fellow students are engaging in athletics or various other of the amentities of college life. As a result they have become men apart with little or nothing in common with the other members of the college. They know the students who work near them during the day but only with great effort may they acquaint themselves with the life of the college as a whole or with men of different temperaments and interests...