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...Daingerfield, Tex. (pop. 1,700) the townsfolk were as excited as if a 10,000-barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed...
...Lone Star for $7,500,000 (with no initial down payment), and three of the Oklahoma mines. But WAA insisted on additional operating capital of $1,000,000, to be raised within ten days. So Carpenter & friends organized a financial posse, struck out for the red clay hills around Daingerfield. At crossroad gatherings and town rallies, they sold thousands of shares of stock, got some $100,000 from Longview (pop. 13,758) alone...
...Norton is pretty well satisfied with the 145 paintings he gave the museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...
...Whitehead, a justice of the peace from Washington; Mary M. Bartelme, a judge of the Chicago Juvenile Court; Izetta Jewell Brown, a politician from West Virginia (TIME, June 2, 1924)?business women, club women, attorneys, doctors, authors, editors, educators?all the usual and unusual occupations ranging to Elizabeth Daingerfield, Kentucky breeder of fine horses...