Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midway between the two portraits glimmers a mirror over whose forgetful surface have played the intervening years, as reflected in Ann's face and figure?Peter Smith's pioneering in steel; the "partnership" they were to have had in this as man and wife; his reticence and absorption in the business; their first quarrels, his prosperity, their children; the great fire and his phoenix-like rise therefrom...
...braced against bereavement when Peter, retired from business and lost without it, passed also. She kept up the old house in a now-unfashionable part of the city, stubbornly opposing her grandchildren's suggestions that she take an apartment, just as Peter had opposed his lawyer about joining the Steel Trust...
Secondly, German coke makers and French iron miners are now sufficiently en rapport to make probable shortly a union of the two complementary industries and consequently lower prices for Franco-German steel...
...begin with, British steelmakers face a strongly unionized body of workmen whose wages are already much higher than those of competing German and French workmen; the British steel workers are now agitating a new pension scheme for themselves, the expense of which must result in higher prices for the output of British mills...
...British iron and steel industry is at present very much a child of misfortune. Everyone's hand is against it except Premier Baldwin's-himself an important steel master-yet the Premier seems powerless to avert depression from his own trade...