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...director in 1925. Seven years later he succeeded J. P. Morgan as chairman. Head of the finance committee in 1927, he had by 1929 retired most of Big Steel's funded debt, thereby reducing fixed charges some $30,000,000 annually and preparing the company to run the gauntlet of Depression. Second point on Myron Taylor's program was a vast modernization and expansion of plant, now nearing completion. Third point was the merger of two subsidiaries, Carnegie and Illinois Steels. Fourth was the revitalizing of Big Steel with young executive blood...
Every Wednesday the same group of sprinters run four times through the gauntlet of lights. Novices as well as experienced men compose the group. And by now Neufeld has a fairly accurate record of how an average group of runners behave over 35 yards...
Captured at 18 by the Caughnawaga Indians, young Smith ran the gauntlet at Fort Duquesne. There he witnessed raiding parties returning with the scalps of General Braddock's massacred army, the slow burning alive of nine prisoners. Instead of killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...
...printing with an ancient press which they dug out from under a pile of rubbish and bought from a job plant, on terms, for $1,100. They turned it over by hand when it failed to function on the paper's first '"run." Later expert Pressman Jim Gauntlet was called in consultation from Seattle. Cried Jim Gauntlet when he spied the News-Herald press: ''Good God! I thought I had seen the last of that thing 25 years ago!" Most unique publishing difficulty under gone by the fledgling News-Herald lay in the fact that while...
...entire history of England no one ever picked up the gauntlet of the King's Champion and offered to fight...