Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stocks. When Secretary Mellon speaks optimistically of U. S. business and credit conditions, as he did last week upon sailing for a brief vacation in Europe, buyers of stock exchange securities become optimistic. Their enthusiasm last week pushed the price of U. S. Steel common stock to 165%, General Motors to 182 ⅜, Du Pont to 216 ⅞ Delaware & Hudson to 195 ½. These were record quotations for these important securities...
Last week off Gonaives, seaport of Haiti, the burning rays of a tropical sun shone on well-scrubbed decks and burnished brass and steel made rainbows in flying spray. More than 100 U. S. warships strung out in a long grey line against lazily heaving waves and the deep blue of the sky. Huge battleships, their flags flying, moved along like imperturbable swimming pyramids; slim grey destroyers cut through the water as precisely as a butcher's whirling knife slices cheese; ungainly plane and submarine tenders waddled past. The only sounds were the faint swish of the waves...
Charles Michael Schwab, Bethlehem Steel: "On my return to Manhattan last week with Dr. Samuel Alburtus Brown, Dean of New York University Medical School, who has accompanied me on my European vacations the past 25 years, I remarked: 'I have to take things slower now than I did a few years ago. I don't smoke and I take one drink a day under doctors' orders...
...Navy, majestic, ponderous, congeals the fiery blood of a natural cavalryman. Theodore Roosevelt resigns to organize a volunteer corps. The Rough Riders gather in San Antonio-cowboys, jailbreakers, sheriffs, wealthy young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private...
...steel and speed, all that may be very fine, but the past history of Harvard has certainly seen more romantic, more interesting, though perhaps less convenient, means of getting to Boston town...