Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since his original decision of 1913 Mr. Morgan has refused the chair of innumerable mighty corporations; but the death of Judge Elbert H. Gary (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927) induced him to become Chairman of U. S. Steel Corp...
...Everitt, president of Montgomery Ward and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field. The present Marshall Field conducts the investment house, Field, Glore & Co., which financed the issue. Industrialists on the new board include Sewell L. Avery (U. S. Gypsum), Edward F. Carry (Pullman Co.), Robert P. Lament (American Steel Foundries), George A. Ranney (International Harvester), B. A. Eckhart (Eckhart Milling Co.). The new corporation will function under one of those broadminded charters which have made the State of Delaware a financial Gretna Green. Chicago Corp.'s directorate will be virtually unrestricted in its choice of investment fields...
...Steel. The automotive industry during 1928 became steel's best customer, with building second and railroads third. The following table shows 1928 and 1927 figures for six representative steel companies...
Fairchild Cabin-plane-5-seat cabin monoplane; folding wings braced by steel V tubes on each side; radial motor, low-placed, affording view through sloping windscreen from glass-enclosed deep cabin; fuselage full; rudder, stabilizers large and curving...
...stated that the construction of the new steel stands at the open end of the Stadium would probably necessitate the removal of the cage, but that it would under no circumstances be destroyed. He said that Harvard was in greater need of facilities for indoor sports than outdoor playing fields and that, because of this, the cage would be dismanteled and removed to another part of Soldiers Field. The cage was built in 1897 and is still in constant use in spite of the construction of the new Briggs cage...