Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company of which Col. May is so especially fond has been familiar to him from boyhood. Gulf States Steel is second in the South only to Sloss-Shemeld Steel & Iron Corp.. but last year operated at a loss. Strategically located, it has been sought by American Rolling Mill Co. and the Eaton interests. Steelmen agree that eventually Republic Steel Corp. will acquire...
...busy, have given him, says he, millions of dollars, also have taken millions of dollars away. His great interest for many years has been to build a railroad from Muscle Shoals to Mobile Bay, running along the valley of the Warrior River, passing through lands rich in coal and iron. The charter for this road, to be called the Mobile & West Alabama Railroad, was granted 35 years ago, but Col. May recites a sad story of how other railroad groups have blocked the project. But his hopes for the road are high at present, and he thinks...
Gulf State's ore reserves are said by Standard Statistics to consist of 120,000,000 tons of iron, 300,000,000 of coal. More cheery, Col. May gives 200,000,000 and 600,000,000 as the figures. He comments on the fact that the company has no mortgage indebtedness, but omits the fact that it has outstanding $5.600,000 in 52% debentures...
Another of TIME'S well received and cheerfully acknowledged mistakes. Page 13, issue of Feb. 9, last column makes reference to J. J. Parker "Hoovercrat." 'Tis not thus. Judge Parker is an iron bound; rock ribbed; dyed in the wool; etc., Republican. Our "Hoovercrat," one of the few left of an 86,000 majority in 1928, is Frank R. McNinch of Charlotte, now on the Federal Power Commission. Both are esteemed citizens...
Died. Lillian Leitzel Pelikan Cordona (Lillian Leitzel), 37, famed circus gymnast; after a fall when an iron trapeze ring broke; in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope...