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Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., which not only recognized the Steel Workers Organizing Committee but signed an exclusive bargaining contract, apparently had as little trouble with the union as U. S. Steel. First-half profits were up from a measly $182,000 in 1936 to a fat $4,400,000 in 1937. For American Rolling Mill, whose name is not among the 260 steel companies in the C. I. O. fold, the six-month period was the best in its history-$6,600,000, more than the figure for the entire year 1929. Ernest Tener Weir...
...James G. Vandergrift, 30, grandson of old "Captain" J. J. Vandergrift, a onetime river boatman who accumulated a large fortune in oil, land and steel, had a Pennsylvania town named for him. Energetic young James Vandergrift is the son-in-law of William T. Mossman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive who made news copy in the last Presidential campaign because he is an uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon. Young James went to Ohio State, studied chemistry and geology, taught swimming, worked in the oil fields of Texas, California, Pennsylvania. New York, South America. In Michigan he saw some experiments with...
Could the Senator from Pennsylvania ask the witness a question? It was "common talk" in Pittsburgh clubs, said the Senator, that Mr. Girdler had been asked to resign from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel. "Because you gave confidential information of your company to the company you are now with...
...while appear. Liable to crankiness, preciosity and short wind, a few nevertheless make themselves useful. Last week an interesting candidate for usefulness published its fifth book in a series devoted to "work of individualists." The press: New Directions, of Norfolk, Conn. The editor: 23-year-old James Laughlin IV of the Pittsburgh steel family...
...contrast with similar presses of the past, such as the Black Sun Press conducted in Paris by the late Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby, New Directions professes a social purpose. Editor Laughlin believes with I. A. Richards and most other competent critics that language, like a swimming pool, needs to be constantly renewed and purified for the pleasure and health of those who use it. If stagnant associations and clichés can be broken up in people's minds they will be more imaginative and receptive to ideas of social change. Says Editor Laughlin: "It is the word worker...