Word: eatonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel men, surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction...
...small steel companies, chiefly in Ohio and Indiana, the company last year went through a rapid expansion program which included acquisition of Trumbull Steel Co. and Steel & Tubes, Inc. There were also continuous but as yet unfulfilled rumors of a merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., in which Mr. Eaton is also interested. Republic Iron & Steel showed a net of $4,642,000 in 1928 and a net of $8,667,530 for the first nine months...
...Republic-Youngstown amalgamation, which has on several occasions appeared all but ratified, may yet be arranged, and Chicago's Inland Steel Company, in which Mr. Eaton is heavily interested, is also a potential member of the combination. The Republic group at present lacks a rail-making member-a gap which Inland would fill. Present ranking of the leading steel companies...
...Manhattan's Municipal Building one Mr. Burgher presented himself to be married to one Miss Eaton. When they heard the clerk call "Burke and Egan," the couple mistakenly stepped forward, went through the brief legal ceremony. Later Mr. Burke and Miss Egan arrived and the mistake was realized. By that time Bridegroom Burgher and Bride Eaton, unmarried, were somewhere on their honeymoon...
...group which attended the meeting included Heywood Broun '10, John Mason Brown '23, William Merriam Chadbourne '00, Owen Gould Davis '92, Robert Edmond Jones '10, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Lee Simonson '09, and Maurice Wertheim '06, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '03, Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, Rudolf Protas Berle '14, George Francis Abbott '12, Lewis Beach '13, William Harris '19, Sydney Coe Howard, and Robert Ittell...