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...more than 200 years steelmakers fashioned strips and sheets by drawing hot ingots through rolling mills, then laboriously smoothing and polishing the rough surfaces. In 1921 young, blond, solidly-built Abram Peters Steckel, engineering student, watched sweating men in a wire plant reduce cold rods to thin wire by successive draws through rollers and dies. Mechanically-minded Steckel thought the same idea could be used in reducing steel strips and sheets. He built a crude cold-rolling mill in a friend's garage, went broke...
Dive--Won by Turner (L); second, William R. Steckel '36 (W); third, Vincent...
...yard free style swim--Won by Bennett Y. Ryan '36 (K); second, James M. Heidell '35 (W); third, William R. Steckel...
...walks with a marked limp. Even to his friends he declines to explain his infirmity's cause (presumably infantile paralysis). Despite it he sails, shoots, fishes. His "new deal" for Los Angeles calls for a big public works program, and the dismissal of Chief of Police Roy Steckel and Captain William Hynes, hot Red hunter...
...youngest child in a family is usually the smartest, and the children of elderly parents are usually smarter than other neighborhood children, decided Dr. Richard Leos Jenkins, Chicago juvenile researcher after looking over records of 7,000 Sioux City, Iowa children. (Dr. Minnie L. Steckel gathered the records.) Havelock Ellis thinks that late generating parents do their offspring good. Dr. Jenkins, however, reasons that more money and experience in bringing up children enable such parents to take better care of late comers...