Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass, and see a fainter arm of light waving over the hills ahead, the next eye. They are the night beacons for the U. S. airmail...
...distressing, because it harms business. Representatives of the musicians' union point out that "saxophone strugglers, trombone contortionists, bass drummers and French horn oompahs" have been admitted into the U. S. as "artists," thereby flooding the market for musicians and reducing the wage minimum, much as was the case when steel laborers were imported from Europe in former years...
...feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
Announcement made last week by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. that it had invested $14,000,000 of its $21,436,642 surplus profits in 114,000 shares of U. S. Steel common stock at an average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert...
...last week's appointment to head the fuel company (which, as a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation, employs 40,000 men) came after 13 years as its General Manager. His predecessor died on June 13 and the letter asking him to attend the meeting at which his appointment was made was dated July 13. He was chosen president in room No. 1313 on the 13th floor of the Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh. He was married on February 13 and is now head of 13 allied companies...