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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triumphant day. On a sugarloaf-shaped mountain in southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...
...years, cruisers and smaller craft proportionately less. Therefore, the $667,499,000 budgeted for naval building this year cannot be completely put in circulation for three to four years. Bethlehem Steel's order book now contains $71,000,000 of naval business (total unfilled orders: $192,000,000, largest in peacetime history) but, staggered over three or four years, this comes out as only $18-23,000,000 a year, not nearly enough to support the company's overall production much above the rate for the steel industry as a whole, or to reverse the trend that...
...president, Ernest Tener Weir, still gloomily sitting out Roosevelt, has meanwhile refunded $65,000,000 worth of debt to save half a million a year by lower interest rates. Saving every cent he could, getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...
United Engineering & Foundry rivals Mesta Machine Co. for the position of largest U. S. maker of steel mill equipment, has assets of $15,500,000 and a 1938 profit of $3,192,000. It built the world's first semicontinuous strip mill for American Rolling Mill in 1926, claims to have produced more of this revolutionary steelmaking machinery than all its competitors combined. President Ladd, a curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign...
...fill rush orders from Japan and Russia, United bought a creaky mill at Wooster, Ohio at a bargain price, was all set to abandon it this year when Shibaura Engineering Co., Japan's largest electrical manufacturer, decided to build a rolling mill machinery subsidiary. Hard-headed George Ladd promptly sold them the Wooster mill and last week he announced that it was being shipped, lock, stock & barrel from Wooster to Yokohama, Japan where it will be operated by Shibaura-United, capitalized at 16,000,000 yen ($4,000,000) and 49% owned by United...