Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...structure is 167 feet square, and is of concrete, brick, and steel. Owing to a shortage of steel at the present time, work cannot be pushed as rapidly as was expected. The necessary steel will probably arrive about October...
...came to the U. S. from Germany and by 1905 had become sufficiently rich (coal, mines, New Jersey Zinc Co.) to retire. He thought to devote all his time to ameliorating the living conditions of poor children. He likes them, pities them. But business oppor-tunities-railroads, steel works, Manhattan and Florida realty-knocked, assiduously, made him richer...
Married. Joan Bennett, youngest daughter of Actor Richard Bennett and Actress Adrienne Morrison Bennett (now divorced) ; to one John Martin Fox, son of steel and lumber merchant; at London. The now Mrs. Fox has two sisters: Constance, who married rich Philip M. Plant last year; Barbara, who was the onetime dancing partner of Maurice Mouvet...
...Gary: "Every year when my birthday comes round the newspapers speak darkly of a pitcher that has gone too often to the well. Last week I was 80. As usual, I failed to announce my retirement as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp. I go to the office every day and stay as long as anyone. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, cheered me up by a bit of smart rhetoric. 'Gladstone,' he said, 'ran the British Parliament when he was past 80; Von Moltke ran the German army when past 80, Pope...
Very little is being done on the arena building at present, all of the construction work being suspended excepting the steel frame and trusses...