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Featured in the new Advocate which is now on the news stands, is an article on skiing by James Laughlin...
...Jones & Laughlin...
...last month the highest corporate salary & bonus for 1934 reported to the Securities & Exchange Commission was $250,000 paid to George Gordon Crawford by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Last week's revelations gave top place to President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp. with $365,358 or $1,000,98 per day. Some were surprised to discover that Super-Salesman Watson has only $1,000,000* invested in the huge company which he created and from which he draws so regal a stipend...
Paced by smaller units like Jones & Laughlin, Republic and Northwestern Barb Wire Co., which had laid their 1935 plans long ago, U. S. Steel's directors authorized its subsidiaries to spend $47,000,000 for new construction and equipment within the year. And Bethlehem Steel announced a new $20,000,000 hot and cold rolled strip plant at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...
...proper satiric intention, but it is not accomplished very sharply. The poem sounds like Eliot's "Boston Evening Transcript," in regard to both rhythm and subject matter, and it falls into two halves, one satirical, the other discriptive; a fact which sports any unity of tone. Mr. Laughlin's "Pirates Pass" is a more accomplished piece of work. It is written with much deftness, its vocabulary is interesting, and its use of quotation is admirable-really finished piece of craftsmanship. I find in it, however, one or two mannerisms that ought to be cut out, and I don't like...