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Eighteen hundred trolleymen struck in New Orleans as a result of a union contract dispute. New Orleans Public Service, Inc., imported strikebreakers from Buffalo, N. Y., attempted to run its cars. The first car out of the Canal Street barns was pelted with bricks and paving stones. The "scab" motorman quit in five minutes...
...public was given last week an opportunity to purchase stock in Stone & Webster, Inc., potent builders and operators of U. S. public utilities. To the public went an offering of 400,000 shares of Stone & Webster, Inc., newly organized as a Delaware corporation. To present large stockholders went 175.000 additional shares. Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107. The new financing will create a 100-million-dollar corporation. Control will remain with the founders, Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster...
Stone & Webster, Inc., has built power stations representing 10% of the total central station capacity of the U. S., supplying 20 million U. S. inhabitants with light and power. It has also built many an office building, factory, hotel, and the present Massachusetts Institute of Technology building in Cambridge. Directorate of the new company will include Joseph P. Grace, Board Chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. ; Albert H. Wiggin, Board Chairman of Chase National Bank; Herbert L. Pratt, Board Chairman of Standard Oil of New York...
...Macy & Co., Inc., controls La Salle & Koch Co. of Toledo and the Davison-Paxton Co. of Atlanta...
...Rascoe is 36. Eight years ago he was literary and dramatic editor of the Chicago Tribune, "World's Greatest Newspaper." Since then other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...