Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels...
Among other six-month steel income reports were the following...
President Herbert P. Howell, onetime Carnegie Steel Co. executive, went from Pittsburgh to Manhattan in 1912 to become vice president of National Bank of Commerce. Here he had ample opportunity to study the workings of a Big Bank of the merging type.* Recognizing the power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital...
...Combination red soap and steel wool in a green box, used by housewives to scour stubborn pots & pans) Sales, 5 mos. ending...
...upper miles by means of rockets that to many a Clark student he is only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream...