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...constituted nine-tenths of his fortune. To endow the Carnegie Institution of Washington he assigned $10,000,000 in 1902. After a special act of Congress incorporated the Institution in 1904, it received $12,000,000 more from Mr. Carnegie directly and $5,000,000 from Carnegie Corp. of New York, which he established in 1911 to maintain his funds for "aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor." A notable addition to the Carnegie Institution...
...coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal Co.; by 1912 he was sales manager. Soon he left Pittsburgh Coal Co., founded Cleveland & Western Coal Co. By 1926 his coal company, now North American Coal Corp.. was world's largest producer of tonnage...
...Alleghany Corp. was formed in the present year (TIME, Feb. n) as holding company for Van Sweringen railroad stocks. Its initial offering ($35,000,000 in 5% convertible bonds) was marketed through J. P. Morgan & Co., National City Co., First National Bank, Guaranty Co., Alleghany Corp. Last month announced an issue of $25,000,000 in cumulative preferred, series A, with rights to purchase 1 1/2 shares of common at $30 a share for each share of preferred...
Great among U. S. corporations, little known by the U. S. public, is Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., 1928 net income of which was $30,577,383. Yet, a public which might show no recognition of Union Carbide & Carbon probably would register instantly on Eveready batteries and flashlights. But Evereadies are only one product of one of many Union Carbide & Carbon subsidiaries. Most of its merchandise, metallurgical and chemical, will always have a specialized market; it is on intimate terms with the silicon, the chromium, the manganese, the ethylene, the acetylene and many another chemical family, but few of its products...
James Augustine Farrell of Brooklyn, from common seaman to President of U. S. Steel Corp., was last week the first recipient of the new Elbert H. Gary Memorial medal of the American Iron & Steel Institute, for "distinguished achievement...