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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...One of the several shadows thrown before the Republic merger event was last month's (TIME, Nov. 4) resignation of Tom Mercer Girdler from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh's great "family" steel company. Last year Jones & Laughlin made Mr. Girdler president, having heard that the Eaton interests were negotiating with him, so that his departure from Jones & Laughlin indicated that Mr. Eaton had some large fish ready to fry. Mr. Girdler, who has spent nearly 30 years in various steel mills, swears vigorously and always keeps his hat on, to be ready for emergency calls...
...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 on public utilities. One of his Iowa deals was financed by Otis & Co., Cleveland bond house, marked the beginning of Mr. Eaton's connection with Otis & Co. of which he has been a partner since 1915. In 1912 he organized Continental Gas & Electric, one of the earliest of public utility holding companies. The Republic...
...Eaton is a member of ten clubs, including a fishing club and two hunt clubs, one of which, at Northfield, Ohio (where Acadia Farms, his summer home, is located) he founded and subsidized. He has made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically...
...world. Behind the consolidation is seen the influence of Patino, the Anglo-Oriental tin interests, and the new Tin Producers' Association. From this merger which affects about half the world's tin supply, is expected to come the long-awaited stabilization of tin production and price, one of the purposes of the Tin Producers' Association...
...Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them is the subject of The Lost Patrol...