Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockholder thought that the company was still short of perfection, objecting bitterly to the salaries of Mr. Taylor ($161,000) and President William A. Irvin ($102,000). Instead of offering in rebuttal the noteworthy fact that Steel's ratio of total executive salaries to average profits has been among the lowest in the land, Mr. Taylor declared: "I think that many of us take too narrow a view on the whole salary question. I do not like anyone to attack the salaries that this corporation's executives receive. I resent...
...Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler proposed to abolish by law the common industrial practice of quoting prices which include freight charges from a "basing" city regardless of whether the commodity is actually shipped the specified distance (TIME, March 23). U. S. Steel's William A. Irvin and Bethlehem's Eugene Grace spoke for the industry most bitterly opposed to any change in this system...
Their defense of a practice which has been generally condemned by public and private authorities was hardly strengthened by the fact that Messrs. Grace & Irvin flatly contradicted each other in their opinion of what would happen to the steel industry if the basing point system were disturbed. Mr. Irvin foresaw a dire collapse in steel prices, fearful mortality among small steel companies. Mr. Grace blandly declared: "Doing away wim the basing point system would increase prices through a decrease in competition...
However, Messrs. Grace & Irvin were in perfect harmony on one subject-prospects for the steel industry over the next few months. Having suffered a sharp set-back during the period when Pittsburgh mills were under flood water, the industry last week more than recovered all lost ground, operations rising to 64½% of capacity. Iron Age, amazed by the demand for steel for immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were...
William Huenekens, the chairman of the Editorial Board, was in charge of this competition. As Hugh MacNeil, the Photo Editor, and Irvin Michelman, Art Editor, are both ill, the results of the competition in these two boards has not yet been decided...