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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realities of 1886, so John L. Lewis has adjusted himself to those of 1936. His United Mine Workers' Union admits any man who works in or around a coal mine, no matter what his craft. Under his aggressive leadership U. M. W. has become the biggest, richest, most powerful union in the land. Backed by eleven other industrial unions, leader Lewis is now attempting to organize Steel's 500,000 workers on the same principle. Beyond that- implicit in his announced plan to organize the automobile, rubber, lumber and textile industries as well as steel-lies...
...University was doubtless flattered with having been called one of the best State universities in the country, but equally doubtless chagrined with having been called the richest...
Died. Edward Howland Robinson Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15? a page for typewriting, then tear up the pages...
...with 3,000,000 acres of public land which later produced oil, are now worth about $60,-000,000. University of Texas at Austin (enrollment: 7,000) scraped along on its 2,000,000-acre endowment until oil was struck in 1923, since when it has become the richest and one of the best state universities in the land...
...have bought shares in his original royalty rights. Without putting up a cent, Colombia and the Barco heirs & assigns will eventually receive total royalties amounting to some 10% of all Barco oil delivered to the pipeline terminal. What Chairman Rieber had been willing to pay for one of the richest concessions in South America remained a secret. In the oil industry the price was thought to be somewhere between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. Two things were certain: the Mellons would never have let the Barco go at a loss, and Chairman Rieber would never have paid...