Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that you favor it. The gist of his plan is to industrialize farming and conduct it on a Ford-factory basis. Under his plan, the agricultural land of America would be held by a comparatively few individuals and corporations, and it would be operated by hired labor, just as steel mills and automobile factories are operated. The laborers-the real dirt farmers-would thus be peasants, for they would own neither the land nor the tools of production. Is this to be the future of the American farmer? It may be, but some of us who recall the original purposes...
...bill before the Senate. It developed that the Democratic and farmers' friend strategy was to get the Senate on record generally in favor of some sort of tariff reduction, and then to hitch tariff riders to the tax bill. The riders were to lower the tariff on aluminum and steel, to raise it on farm products such as corn and perhaps mollasses (corn's competitor as a source of industrial alcohol...
Story: ". . . Four bandits were guarding me. Their rifles lay across their knees. It was night. I pretended to be asleep. They began to doze. I waited until they were sound asleep. Then I got up with a piece of steel rod in one hand and a broken bottle in the other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush...
Elected. T. M. Girdler, vice president in charge of operations for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh, to be president; to succeed Charles A. Fisher, resigned to withdraw from active business...
...usual at this time in January, the output of iron & steel foundries perked up and the founders became as cheerful as recently they had been glum. U. S. iron & steel works have a practical capacity of 50,000,000 tons a year. Because the U. S. Steel Corp. was working at 60% of capacity and the several smaller companies at an average of 57½% of capacity during the Christmas holidays, the whole of 1927 seemed to have been a poor year for the industry. Yet, reported the American Iron & Steel Institute last week, the companies produced...