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Manganese. Hard and tough as the jaws of a rock breaker is steel containing manganese. Great U. S. steel companies search the world over for manganese ore, use some 675,000 tons of it per year. Free-listed in the tariff acts of 1909 and 1913, manganese ore was taxed 1 cent per lb. by the 1922 law to protect domestic production in 30 states...
...steelmongers prefer foreign manganese ore. The domestic ore has a low metal content. Of the U. S. consumption, 95% is imported despite higher foreign prices. Last year the U. S. collected $8,065,155 in manganese ore tariffs...
...used to be the steel trust appeared last winter before the House Ways & Means Committee, declared that the 1922 tariff act had caused the steel industry to pay $45,000,000 in manganese duties without domestic production being benefited or improved. The House was asked to free-list this ore. The House refused...
Died. Henry S. Pickands, 53, of Cleveland, Great Lakes coal, ore and shipping tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.); in his Cleveland office; of heart attack...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...