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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a 185-million-dollar surplus showing on the Treasury's books for fiscal 1928, talk of income tax reduction waxed in Washington last week. President Hoover commented cautiously: "We are giving careful study to the possibility. . . . We all hope that the situation may work out. . . ." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: "There may be reasons against it." Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee: "Nothing doing!" Tennessee's Senator McKellar: "Such a surplus would not have been possible but for the amendment introduced by me" (publicity for tax refunds...
When only smoking embers remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
...name of the latest roc of transportation is Curtiss-Wright Corp. Its net as sets are 70 million dollars. Its chiefs are to be Chairman Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 41, Chairman of Wright Aeronautical Corp. & sundry others, and President Clement Melville Keys, 53, President of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor...
...public went an offering of 400,000 shares of Stone & Webster, Inc., newly organized as a Delaware corporation. To present large stockholders went 175.000 additional shares. Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107. The new financing will create a 100-million-dollar corporation. Control will remain with the founders, Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster...
Stone & Webster, Inc., has built power stations representing 10% of the total central station capacity of the U. S., supplying 20 million U. S. inhabitants with light and power. It has also built many an office building, factory, hotel, and the present Massachusetts Institute of Technology building in Cambridge. Directorate of the new company will include Joseph P. Grace, Board Chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. ; Albert H. Wiggin, Board Chairman of Chase National Bank; Herbert L. Pratt, Board Chairman of Standard Oil of New York...