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Muriel McCormick Hubbard, granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller and of Harvester King Cyrus McCormick, was on K.P. duty with the WAACs at Fort Devens. She found the food "delicious, the work interesting and the routine enjoyable," hoped for an overseas assignment...
Airlines' Staff. For his chief of staff George picked a tall Texan who had wrought a wonder of airline organization and operation: 43-year-old Cyrus Rowlett Smith, president of American Airlines (biggest in the U.S.). C. R. Smith put on a colonel's uniform, went to work, has won a brigadier's star for the job he has done...
...fracas started when the Erie Railroad proudly announced that underwriters Morgan, Stanley & Co. would handle a $14,000,000 Erie bond issue. Up rose peppery, dollar-minded Cyrus Stephen Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and a Midwestern underwriter, who believes that New York financiers get far too much of the underwriting business. He demanded that ICC stop the sale, open the bidding to all comers...
...suspected ever since the Mesabi was opened up a half century ago. But it was not till 1930 that a prospector and scout, Jules G. Cross, made a survey of the region, which led to the formation of the Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Backing the company is Cyrus Eaton, creator of Republic Steel, who is arranging a $7,500,000 bond issue...
...magic figure then-the circulation at which TIME might hope to make enough money to stay in business-and it looked very, very far away. In fact, it seemed so far away that every established publisher TIME'S young founders could get in to see (from Cyrus H.K. Curtis down) threw cold water on their "newsmagazine" idea and refused to put even a dollar into...