Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferry. Spick and span in steel gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into...
...effected, his ability to push his companies into prosperity, attracted the attention of financial bigwigs, especially the attention of George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of Manhattan. Banker Baker, who with the first John P. Morgan and the late Judge Gary constituted the first U. S. steel triumvirate, made Mr. Taylor a director of his bank...
...elected to the directorate of two railroads- the New York Central and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; he was made a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. It was rumored that Banker Baker persuaded Myron Taylor to become one of the directors of U. S. Steel; surely, it was his support coupled with the approval of John P. Morgan that gave Myron Taylor one of the three executive offices in this gargantuan corporation...
...mistake. Mr. Farrell was not an official of the U. S. Steel Co. until ten years after its organization...
Their ships have carried practically no jute. The Isthmian Line, potent ship subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp., have carried four cargoes a year, the Cunard-Brocklebank Line two each month, and the Ellerman- Bucknell Line (oldest in the trade) the rest. They had old, excellent contacts with the chief U. S. importers of jute-the Bemis Bag Co., Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Chase Bag Co., American Manufacturing...