Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grim poilus in steel helmets replaced the police guard of the Palais Bourbon one day last week. Within, the Deputies tensed expectantly. Without, an ugly-minded crowd surged and shouted. Suddenly the motor car of Premier Poincaré approached at a speed which gave the mob of malcontents no option between scattering and suffering body bruises. They scattered, reassembled to hoot when he had passed safely into the Chamber. From M. Raymond Poincaré, the Wartime president of France (1913-20), the post-War Premier (1922-24) who sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy...
Warren, Ohio, grimy steel mill town on the muddy Mahoning River, 20 miles from Youngstown, last week went begging for enough money to buy two tires for the single fire department truck it can afford to keep available...
...paid neither its policemen nor its firemen. Last week the local council decided to close one of the two fire stations. Public spirited citizens, who realize that most of the business section is of old, highly inflammable construction deemed good enough for the trade of immigrant steel workers, have pledged $10,000 to pay some wages to remaining firemen. The council, too, voted to discharge the entire police force, sad-eyed Police Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that he had but one chief deputy...
Bethlehem Steel directors met last week. President Eugene G. Grace told them that the corporation's income the last six months was $11,213,873 ($7,494,707 in 1925) or $4.36 a share on common ($2.93 in 1925), that orders on hand June 30 were $50,010,117 ($59,390,376 Mar. 31; $50,342,813 June 30, 1925), that production was at 72% of capacity (56% last July). Directors made no move to resume Bethlehem common dividends payments...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Nova Scotian, now of Cleveland, worked last week on the $80,000,000 merger of the Central Steel Co. of Massillon, Ohio, and the United Alloy Steel Corp. of Canton, Ohio. Their combined ingot capacity will Approximate 1,400,000 yearly. They will be the sixth largest steel corporation in the U. S., the very largest specializing in alloy steels...