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...make that house look like a miner's shack!" cried Henry Clay Frick who thereupon spent $5,000,000 on the house to which the public was admitted last week. Even strolling in Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade with timorous, kindly Mrs. Frick, Frick's mind was constantly working up ways of outshining Carnegie. Frick could not make after-dinner speeches, pat newsboys on the head, or write essays on the virtue of goodness, but he knew how to buy & sell and he had instinctive taste. He set out to form the greatest private art collection...
Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
...Modest Miner. Such stories of ogreish engineers are part of the now far-advanced Soviet Press effort to sell speedups to Russian workers as something of which they should be proud, while still picturing speedups as wicked in Capitalist countries. Recently 3,000 Stakhanovites of both sexes, including Comrade Alexei Stakhanov himself, were feted in Moscow by the Dictatorship and Joseph Stalin. Reported the official Pravda, "Stalin spoke briefly for about an hour...
FIRST of the United States Steel "new blood Benjamin F. Fairless, 45, has been elected to presidency of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporate "New blood," but even more significant, Fairless of born the son of an Ohio of miner, and lived early in Shadows of sooty shafts of human despair...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...