Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought control (see p. 41)-two 10,000-ton cruisers with 6-in. guns, at $11,677,000 each; four 1,850-ton destroyers at $3,775,000 each. To Electric Boat Co.-two 1,400-ton submarines, minus main propelling machinery, at $2,770,000 each. To Bath Iron Works Corp.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,429,000 each. To Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,410,800 each. To United Dry Docks, Inc.-two 1,500-ton destroyers at $3,400,000 each. The contract prices did not include armament...
...Beatrice Gottlieb, 1-handicap golfer of Tuckahoe, N. Y.: an 18-hole match against the Prince of Wales; 5 & 4; at Coombe Hill, England. Vastly pleased and perturbed at being the first woman golfer to beat the Prince, Miss Gottlieb gave him one of her iron clubs which he fancied, got a box of balls and an autographed scorecard in return...
Nearly 20 years ago John D. Rockefeller Jr. was uncomfortably quizzed and criticized by Congressmen about the labor policies of his Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. On Ivy Lee's advice he later traveled all the way to Colorado to placate public opinion and the company's troublesome miners. Since then the Rockefellers have tried to put good men in charge, keep their own hands off. Yet labor troubles and ups & downs in business have more than once given the Rockefellers cause to regret their Colorado investment. Last week Colorado Fuel & Iron gave the Rockefellers one more cause...
...greater use of natural gas in the West, but chiefly from the fact that, lying 1,000 mi. east or west of good steel markets, some 65% of its normal steel business has been the manufacture of rails. Since railroads have not yet begun buying rails, Colorado Fuel & Iron did not feel the force of the last three months' pick-up in the business...
...able president (now receiver) Arthur Roeder (procured in 1929 from American Linseed Co.) will have a tough job to bring the company around the corner in time to refund $27,000,000 of bonds falling due a year hence. Saints have their crosses, the Rockefellers have Colorado Fuel & Iron...