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...While Mrs. Hoover was busy in Virginia, President Hoover was being remembered in his native Iowa. At Dubuque there was great ceremony as the world's largest twin-screw towboat was named Herbert Hoover by Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn, wife of the head of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government-owned barge line. Driven by Diesel motors, the vessel will be able to move a 10,000-ton tow 4 m.p.h. upstream. After trials the Herbert Hoover will go to New Orleans, its home port, and ply between there and St. Louis...
...Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines) 391 215 Murray Corp. (motor bodies) 295 204 D National Candy 313 112 Newport Co. (chemicals) 426 240 Patino Mines (tin) 150 D 163 D Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt 778 3 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron 630 656 Poor & Co. (railroad equipment) 629 211 Shell Union Oil 3,155 D 9,903 D Simms Petroleum 37 D 396 D Standard Oil of Calif. 9,430 4,368 Timken Roller Bearing 3,106 1,314 United Aircraft & Transport 900 806 White Rock...
...controlling 95% of the business, had carried the Hoover doctrine a step too far, had fixed prices by means of discounts, allowances and "a system of freight equalization for preferred customers." Among the associated companies, which did an annual business of $75,000,000, were: Bethlehem Steel Co., Automatic Screw Machine Products Co., Erie Bolt & Nut Co.. Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Wrought Iron Co. of America. Defending counsel included James Francis Burke, counsel for the Republican National Committee, and onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York. Consenting to the decree which put it out of business, the Association...
...tree." Many-valved, it was designed to shut down on the escaping oil little by little. But the white figures could remain near the huge yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred Morgan, a drilling contractor whose first private enterprise this well was. He, a poor man. had congratulated himself on great riches during the well's first eight inches...
Primo Camera, gigantic Italian fisticuffer, heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters. All agog, he rushed to the street, discovered firemen putting out a small blaze in the Plaza annex, would not calm himself until he had used his great paws to help screw a fire-hose to a hydrant...