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...operators were eyeing A.T.& T. as a prospective bull favorite, and that rumors of an approaching stock split up had already been started, A. T. & T. officials emphatically denied that any such split up was under consideration. Also, with momentous significance, these officials called attention to President Walter S. Gifford's 1928 report. In this report, President Gifford said: "The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. accepts its responsibility for nationwide telephone service as a public trust. Its duty is to provide the American public with . . . service at a reasonable cost. To attain this end it is the policy...
...Bayhes, J. C. Bayley, Everett Bradley F. M. Bud, Godfrey Cabot, David Cheever, Algernon Coolidge, Juiian Coolidge, C. P. Curtis, G. S. Curtis, H. T. Cutler, Bradford Dorr, J. D. M. Ford, Q. M. Fowle, K. Francke, Langdon Frothingham, G. P. Gardiner, P. W. Gentleman, J. H. Gifford, E. P. Goodnow, L. C. Graton, Frederick Haldsworth, G. W. Harrington, H. M. Houser, C. E. lndus...
Among famed steelmen not at the U. S. Steel meeting was Charles M. Schwab, onetime (1901-03) U. S. Steel president, now board chairman of Bethlehem Steel, second largest steel producer. Chairman Schvvab and President Eugene Gifford Grace had held their stockholders' meeting earlier in the month. President Grace had at that time told Bethlehem stock-holders that Bethlehem's March output was greater than its rated capacity, that (recently resumed) dividends on common should continue uninterruptedly. U. S. & Bethlehem. Great is Bethlehem Steel; greater is U. S. Steel. Bethlehem has a capacity of 7,900,000 ingot...
...Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, sailed last week from Brooklyn in his schooner, the Mary Pinchot, bound for the Caribbean, Galapagos, Tahiti. With him were his wife and son, Gifford Jr. An hour after he sailed he had to return. Reasons: ammonia fumes were escaping from a pipe in the refrigerating system, the telegraph system between the captain's cabin and the engine room was out of order. Three days later he sailed again. No mishaps interfered...
...Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, made known that he and his wife would soon sail forth on a fishing cruise. The Pinchot ambition: to catch a mammoth manta ("sea devil") such as Explorer-Author William Beebe captured in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands...