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¶ Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. shut down its Pencoyd Iron Works in Philadelphia where 1,000 men were employed when Carnegie acquired it a year ago. Pencoyd is the home works of Percival Roberts Jr., turn-of-the-century steelmaster (now retired) whom Judge Gary, famed first Chairman of U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stalled Steel | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

With this nicely articulated case against him, Percival E. Jackson, attorney for the plaintiffs, hid his surprise last week, quickly joined in a motion for adjournment when Mr. Proskauer read Mr. Doherty's offer of settlement. It included a tender of attorneys' fees for the suing stockholders. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mr. Doherty Defers | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Also shown is a complete set of first editions of the famous "Rollo" books, published a century or so ago. These were among the earliest childhood books read by Miss Lowell and her brothers Percival and Abbott Lawrence, and her sister Elizabeth, and have been in constant possession of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Died. Sir Percival Phillips, 59, last active newshawk of Britain's official frontline War correspondents, nephew of the onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Last May, as his share in the projected British Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg, South Africa's Rockefeller offered $50,000 in prizes for a London-Johannesburg air race. Last week, as the Johannesburg Exhibition entered its third week, nine planes buzzed away from London after the prize money. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Crash, Crash, Crash | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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