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...found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better building material than brick. He first took his idea of a General Motors in the housing field to steel-conscious Charles Allen Liddle, president of Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp...
...Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., a subsidiary of Pullman Inc., with much experience in building steel shelter-units. This company will supply pressed-steel panels...
...week prior in Manhattan-set up a new committee to find channels through which the new credit could be pumped out to "reflate" trade & finance. On the committee, besides leading bankers, were such potent Chicago industrialists as President Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co.; President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase and no rabbit...
...financed Mayor Walker's sundry private car trips through the country during his seven years of office, Senator Hastings did not reveal. But he did say that he considered himself responsible for a $2,008.34 debt, still unpaid, to Pullman Co. for the chartered car in which he and his dapper friend dashed out to get in on California's Mooney Case last winter...
...sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command...