Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Home Fleet handily at its present bases in the North Sea and the English Channel. Admiralty experts advised His Majesty's Government to remove the Home Fleet to the extreme southern tip of Wales where Milford Haven affords the refuge of a strongly fortified harbor extending some ten miles inland. Forehanded as usual, the Admiralty announced that it has already bought lands at Milford Haven and is ready to launch a $2,000,000 program for making it a super-safe naval nest equipped with every means of repelling bombers...
...Luce picked hops together, quarreled, outwitted mean-spirited settlers, camped together in a cabin on the desolate coast. Clay lied about the circumstances that had made him a fugitive; Luce would not disclose some dark secret that burdened her life. When the settlers left the coast to trek inland again. Wade Shiveley bobbed up in the wagon train. Clay killed another boy while trying to kill Wade, then accused Wade of the killing. Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone...
Last week Inland Steel celebrated its 50% rise in earning with a 25? extra dividend in addition to its regular 50? dividend. Typical of hustling steelmakers who in the last 15 years have whittled U. S. Steel's share of the nation's ingot capacity down from 45% to less than 40%, Inland Steel has doubled its own ingot capacity since 1925. Last year it completed a four-year program of diversification by building a tin-plate mill. Its sales and profits this year came chiefly from sheet and strip steel...
...head of Inland are the brothers Block, Philip Dee, president, and Leopold E., chairman, sons of a Cincinnati ironmonger. Visitors seldom find them both at their own desks because each is continually popping into the other's office to argue, suggest, consult. Philip Block is the operating head. As such he supervised the building of Inland's new $20,000,000 finished steel mill at Indiana Harbor, Ind. which, though it looked like a bad investment in 1931 and 1932, is currently responsible for most of Inland's profits. Leopold Block is the financial head and used...
Hard on the heels of the dividend announcement came another. By approval of the two boards of directors Inland was merged with 93-year-old Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, independent steel and iron company, with Ryerson in the status of a wholly owned subsidiary. With this addition Inland moves up to seventh rank among the nation's steel companies, with a capitalization of $116,000,000. Fifty-nine shares of Inland stock will be issued for each 100 shares of Ryerson turned...