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The Woman. Second oldest U.S. steel maker (oldest: Taylor-Wharton at High Bridge, N.J.), Lukens was founded in 1810. Badly located for raw materials, it limped along until 1825, when upholstered, ambitious, 3O-year-old Rebecca Lukens inherited the business, became the first big-time U.S. female executive (see cut...
But Jolly John and his crowd continue to play ball with the administration, and both parties find room in the trough. Meantime a series of mysterious murders, in which the victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt...