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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since he lifted the Chicago Opera and its million-a-year deficit from the grateful shoulders of Harold Fowler McCormick, Mr. Insull has made it his favorite plaything. And most things that Samuel Insull plays with are sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting...
Donner Steel. Buffalo company making mostly special steels. Control was bought this summer by Mr. Eaton who paid $35 per share for the stock held by President William Henry Donner. Later the same offer was made to the minority holders. Company recently lost a patent suit to the Witherow Steel Corp. Eaton interests are now reported seeking control of Witherow...
...Mercer Girdler went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
Until last week the Joneses and the Laughlins must have thought they had outsmarted Financier Eaton, for as soon as Mr. Girdler was made president he bought a $140,000 home in Sewickley, smart suburb, began to make his name known to other Pittsburgh families than his employers, seemed definitely settled there. But last week he resigned from Tones & Laughlin to be "actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry." It was evident that the Eaton interests had. won, especially when two days later R. J. Wysor, general manager and assistant to President Girdler, also...
Just what position Mr. Girdler will hold in the Eaton "interests" is as doubtful as what companies Mr. Eaton intends to put in the long-discussed super-steel-merger. Mr. Eaton, working with William Gwinn Mather and Otis & Co., sponsors of Continental Shares, Inc., is supposed to control enough steel companies to enable him to form a single unit that will challenge Bethlehem's position as second biggest U. S. producer. Until plans for this consolidation are completed, it is probable Mr. Girdler will advise the Eaton group on technical matters and stock activity. Chief companies with which Mr...