Word: schwab
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...they were to see the President. As they drove to the White House, Mr. Schwab was heeding the words of Mr. Grace...
...President, confident in Mr. Colby's power of persuasion, greeted Mr. Schwab with both hands, earnestly thanked him for his acceptance of the job, praised his patriotism...
...Schwab was drafted. He went back to his office, wrote a letter stating in no uncertain terms that as Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation he would have nothing to do with any transactions between the U. S. and any company in which he was directly or indirectly interested. He named 13 companies...
Then it was April, 1918, and the U-boats were sinking about 1,000,000 tons of Allied shipping per month?Mr. Schwab raced across the country from one shipyard to another. Tons of shipping slid completed from the ways...
Meanwhile, his own companies were making vast profits for part of which the U. S., last week, filed suit in the Federal District Court of Philadelphia for "upwards of $11,000,000." The suit attacked Mr. Schwab because he forced other companies to keep within a 10% profit, but failed to interfere with profits of his own concerns-"Bethlehem...