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...bought heavily into Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months???a steel, brick & concrete modern-Gothic structure, three-storied and three-winged, with a vast grey-beamed, chromium-trimmed arena in its centre. "This," boasted President Leonard, "will be America's new Temple of Agriculture...
Turning to his latest statement, Mr. Baker pointed out that investments in Government bonds had jumped $22,000,000 in twelve months???standing at $77,000,000. During the year the bank had bid for or subscribed to no less than $1,396,000,000 of long-term and short-term Government issues, for its own and its customers' accounts. Summing up the experience of bankers big & little. Chairman Baker remarked: "With the small demand for credit from our customers, it was necessary to invest a greater amount in securities...
Nevertheless, the embattled United Textile Workers offered to haul up the cease-firing signal for the next six months??? with the proviso that it would continue organization work within the industry...
...Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference at Paris; the introduction was written in an airplane flying from Paris to Cairo. At Reading railway station, the following December, the two-thirds-finished MS was stolen. He set to and rewrote the whole thing in three months??? 34,000 words of it at one sitting, between sunrise and sunrise. Published and distributed privately, the book cost him some £10,000. To pay off his debt he made a popular abridgment (in two nights, with the help of two other airmen), the best-selling Revolt in the Desert. Lawrence...
...quoted as saying of his wealth to a worker: "I can't help it. ... You are too lazy to think for yourselves. . . . You pay me a big income because you think I am worth it. I make decisions for you?perhaps one decision in six months???and that's what I am paid for. . . . Don't get the hired man habit." Implicitly Biographer Gardner tells the story of the poor boy who disliked being an underdog strongly enough to hoist himself to the top of the pile, and thereafter beckoned others to follow...