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Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel men, surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction...
Essential to Mr. Eaton is the assistance of able steel men for Mr. Eaton knows little of steel and, like a chemist's catalyst by his mere presence hastens reactions in which he has otherwise no part. "I am,'' he himself has said, "only an investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options...
Wealthy collectors of art are usually old men who, upon retiring from business, find little to do. In Washington, D. C., there is, however, a young man who is devoting his life to picture collecting and propaganda. He is Duncan Phillips, tall, slender son of the late Major D. Clinch Phillips, Pittsburgh manufacturer (glass). For eleven years young Phillips has been owner of a one-man museum of modern...
Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...
...Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went the U. S. S. Cumberland; the Congress went up in flames. Sailor Buchanan, wounded in the thigh, was promoted to Admiral. Soon after the Virginia...