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...United States Steel Corporation has never cut a melon, although it has more than half a billion dollars in surplus. Many common stockholders yearn for this usufruct of 25 years' waiting which Judge Elbert Henry Gary, chairman of the Board, has placidly withheld. Men had tried to tease the Judge into resigning at the April stockholders meeting. They had urged that he was an old man turned 80, had been with U. S. Steel since its inception in 1901, had made a batch of steel highbinders work together and actually practice his ethics in business. U. S. Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Fortnight ago U. S. Steel led a stock market rise. Talk centered on that melon, on the resignation of the grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...preferred. Thus 80-year-old Chairman Elbert Henry Gary's frequently repeated dictum that U. S. Steel common was a "7% stock" was reaffirmed. He remains as Chairman of the Board. Recently U. S. Steel has been climbing on the stock market because of rumors that a melon would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...every bit of research every signing of contract with coaches every advanced secret practice, every current of the Pigskin melon, be performed is electric light. Too much daylight not good for the game for business football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW REPUBLIC SUGGESTS ISSUING PIGSKIN PREFERRED ON FOOTBALL AS A BUSINESS | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

...auto bus began to be developed as a serious competitor of railroad and traction companies, there has been a vivid interest in Wall Street in Mack Trucks, Inc. Earnings on the stock have been sensational, and prices for it have soared on the anticipation that soon a big "melon" would be split for the special benefit of the shareholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mack Trucks | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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