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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought him a backer, Cinemactor Denny crowed: "I can fiddle around as much as I want to and can quit worrying about whether the plant loses money...
...what the Valley Daily News described as "the greatest throng in Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community's No. 1 industry and its boss...
...well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved up to foreman at a time when a foreman's traditional duty was to lick any man he could not persuade. Later Harry Sheldon became plant manager, moved into a white-collar office...
When U. S. Steel absorbed Kirkpatrick, Sheldon and his well-to-do father-in-law put up $300,000 between them to form Allegheny Steel & Iron Co. with a small plant for producing specialty steel. Since then Allegheny Steel (which dropped the "Iron" in 1905) has lost money in only one year-1932. Hicks and Sheldon interests still own most of it. In 1923 Allegheny became the first commercial U. S. producer of stainless steel, licensed under German patents held by the Chemical Foundation, Inc.* Today, with the company near the top of its class, the piles of scrap steel...
Founder Sheldon, now grey, wiry, slightly bent, lives in Pittsburgh, is driven to work every day at his Brackenridge plant, takes little interest in a farm he once bought-as a business proposition- outside Butler, Pa. His distaste for publicity is matched only by his fondness for brass bands. Old Allegheny workers call him "Harry." In 25 years his mills have been closed less than a week as the result of labor troubles. To his well wishers last week he replied, extemporaneously, having lost his notes in the confusion: "This tribute is not for me. It is for the company...