Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Boston nowadays, the Harvard student descends into the bowels of the earth, drops a dime into a box, and enters a coffin-like case of steel. He is whirled over the Charles to Park Street Under in ten minutes, almost before he realizes it, to be spat up on the surface again via an escalator...
Detroit automotive shops, last week, were employing 45,000 fewer men than a year ago. U. S. Steel's unfilled orders, indicator of business conditions, were 3,597,119, the least since last October. Decidedly, industry after prosperous 1926, has not had a prosperous late winter. However, the year's busiest season is immediately ahead. In contrast to this industrial quietude, money is plentiful. Therefore the values of securities have risen, as people have insistently sought outlets for investments. Because such investors are. willing to accept low interest payments, they snatched at U. S. Secretary of the Treasury...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary permitted the Saturday Evening Post to print last week an interview concerning the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the man who had raised him, a reluctant Illinois lawyer, to head the United States Steel Corp. Said the Judge...
...encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap pig iron to northern manufacturers. The U. S. Steel Corp. put George Gordon Crawford in as 38-year-old president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. with the cheery news that he was like "a man who, having a millstone hung about his neck, has been thrown into a rushing current and told to swim upstream...
...newspapers in Mobile (the News-Item, evening; the Register, morning) as well as the Journal at Alabama's capital, Montgomery, bought the Age-Herald. It is said that he made the purchase to get backing for Mobile's $10,000,000 project in the Birmingham coal and steel district, that he sold it once his purpose was accomplished...