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...jail several humble citizens for restraining trade but the defense hardly winced for this suit is civil, not criminal. Lawyers Fly & Rice are not new to trust busting. Besides sugar, Mr. Fly has been after the Asphalt Shingle and Roofing industry. Before that he broke up a combination of rivet, nut & bolt makers. Mr. Rice won his anti-trust spurs against a chicken combine...
...Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., builders. The present board of directors includes nine men who can be identified with Thompson-Starrett. Among them is Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co., one of the firms that sold the Waldorf's bond issue. It was he who drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience. He was in charge of the McAlpin (Manhattan) when the late General Coleman du Pont asked him to take over...
...Jersey's Governor Morgan Foster Larson did manual labor when he journeyed to Kearny, drove the first rivet in a new Grace Line ship. This was the second step in an ambitious building program of this prosperous, family-owned company. Four ships will be built, $17,000,000 spent, employment given...
Each week brings its grist of Federal action under this statute. Fortnight ago it was the nut, bolt & rivet men whose trade association was dissolved by a U. S. court (TIME, March 30). Last week it was the sugar and steel industries upon which Attorney General Mitchell opened fire. The steelmakers, he charged, had for ten years conspired to fix the price of steel rails at $43 per ton. But far more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than...
...Mechanic Kassay let his friend into a secret: the Akron would never take the air. Kassay would see to that; he had his own reasons. See how simple: you spit between the sections that are to be riveted ?so. In the cold up here, the spittle freezes?but the riveter cannot see because it looks silvery, like the duralumin, so he drives his rivet in. Then next June when they launch the ship, the warm air will thaw the spittle, the rivet will be loose. Soon something may happen...