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Republic . . . 2,756,000 805,000 Inland...
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...
...Cincinnati dock, one sultry afternoon, Mary Becker Greene stood in the wheelhouse of her newest steamboat, peered up the Ohio River, impatiently fingered the wheel. Hefty "Ma" Greene is the only licensed woman navigator on inland waterways in the U. S. With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale...
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