Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dire necessity did some Japanese Marines at Hankow unlimber their machine guns to disperse a Chinese mob which attempted to loot the Japanese concession there. Two Chinese were killed; but if Baron Shidehara can manage it, their blood will not be the beginning of red freshets on Japanese steel...
...more than 500 U. S. corporations last week received and cashed dividend checks totaling more than $500,000,000 as their income for the first quarter of the year. More than 30 companies also declared extra dividends, notably American Safety Razor, Childs (restaurants), Coca-Cola, Pere Marquette R.R., Midland Steel, Humble Oil & Gas, St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R.R., United Fruit, Singer Sewing Machine. The largest extra dividend-$60 a share-was paid by a relatively obscure concern, Pratt & Whitney, manufacturers of aircraft...
...Iron & Steel. Writer John W. Hill in last week's Iron Trade Review summarized 1926 iron and steel business. Twenty-six companies earned $265,138,052 on capitalization of $3,954,170,893?6.7%. In 1925 the percentage of earnings to capital was 5.61. U. S. Steel's rate was 6.65%, that of Bethlehem Steel . 5.54%. Such returns on investments are far less than prevail in other industries, Writer Hill declared, pointing to General Motors whose earnings last year were 30%?$186,000,000 on $634,000,000 capital...
...order of the speakers according to draw, and their subjects will be a follows; K.M. Capper Johnson '27, Ramsey Macdonald's "Reduction of Armaments-1924"; P.J. Booe '28, Victor Hugo's "The Death Penalty"; A.F. Reel; F. I. Kosen '29, Auslander's "Steel"; A.F. Reel '28, George F. Hoar's, "On Retaining the Philippine Islands"; H.M. Neuberge '27, Rudyard Kip;ing's "On the Road to Mandalay"; Eduardo Andrade '28, Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"; L. Kosol '27, Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe"; and H.A. Wolff '29 "Not Guilty", anonymous...
...Bingham, Utah, a stanch steel cable furnishes trackage for the aerial tramway that connects the Utah Delaware Co.'s reducing plant with the mines. Last week as a high wind shrilled and blew, one Glen Higley, miner, rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...