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However, at Cleveland, Ohio, Cyrus S. Eaton, banker and industrialist, declined to comment on reports that he had exploratory conferences here with Lewis. Lewis and his aides reserved comment on the reports, which indicated that Eaton was interested in using his good offices, if feasible, in helping bring Lewis and the operators together...
...Turkey, a wealthy American tourist, recoiling from the native bread, which was flat as a bathmat, was overjoyed at the sight of crisp, crusted, American-style loaves. He sought out the baker, found he was a Protestant missionary named Cyrus Hamlin. Missionary Hamlin convinced wealthy, grateful Tourist Christopher Robert that the Turks needed education even more than better bread, talked him into endowing the first U.S. college in the Near East...
Other echoes of Red Army sabers rattled through Europe. From Paris, the New York Times's chief foreign correspondent Cyrus Leo Sulzberger reported that "certain [Red Army] units" around Trieste and in southeastern Germany had "been put on the qui vive." Next day, the Times's chief military analyst Hanson Weightman Baldwin mildly pooh-poohed such rumors, declared that the Red Army was demobilizing. His estimate of remaining occupation forces: 2,000,000 plus...
...freight business, crowded with weak chicks, an eagle appeared last week. American Airlines Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith announced that American intended to operate "an effective nonscheduled air cargo service." Its "effectiveness" caused shivers to 2,730 new small operators, many of whom are veterans flying surplus planes. They now charge an average of 20? a ton mile. American plans to carry cargo at rates ranging from 18? down to the unheard-of low of 11? a ton mile for big shipments on long hauls...
...deal with Kaiser and Partner Joe Frazer was Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Cleveland financier who helped float the first two K-F stock issues. On May 23 the Portsmouth Steel Corp. was incorporated with Eaton as board chairman. Portsmouth plans to offer 1,025,000 shares of common stock to the public at $10 a share, as soon as its registration statement is made effective by the SEC, and sell another 300,000 shares at the same price to K-F and Graham-Paige Motors Corp. With the cash Portsmouth plans to buy the Wheeling Steel Corp.'s ingot works...