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...time was the steel strike officially mentioned But the choice of a new leader of the Institute soon narrowed down to Big Steel's Irvin as a representative of the new order and those two hard-bitten foes of organized labor, Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir. For three hours the Institute s directors battled in a secret session frequently punctuated by heat-treated speeches from Mr. Grace. On emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant was within a few hours...
...Bethlehem's figures did not by comparison look so startling. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp. announced the highest earnings in the company's history-$13,171,000 before undistributed profits tax of $629,000 as against $11,136,000 the year before. Tom Mercer Girdler's Republic Steel, busy last week with a deal to acquire Gulf States Steel Co., earned more than twice as much in 1936 as in. 1935-$9,586,000 compared to $4,455,000. Inland Steel's profits were up from...
Republic Steel, enjoying steel's best sea son in years, showed a nine-month profit of $6,333,649 as against $3,264,295 last year. President Tom Mercer Girdler estimated that the surtax on Republic's undis tributed profits would amount...
Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler: I believe the American standards of living will continue to rise...
Since the death of the last Jones president in 1926, J. & L. has had no less than four presidents from outside. Most famed was Tom Mercer Girdler, now head of Republic Steel. It was during Mr. Girdler's term that Aliquippa became known to steelmen as the "perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman...