Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Senate debaters, the time-limit would mean ships of steel; its removal, ships of paper. Complaint was made that if the three-year provision were dropped the new fleet would remain at the blue-print stage indefinitely. To bolster this argument it was recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized eight cruisers, none of which is yet completed, due to slow White House action...
When President Coolidge remarked that "the business of America is business," most of his listeners thought at once of Big Business-U. S. Steel Corp., Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, etc., etc. But for every billion-dollar corporation there are countless thousand-dollar corporations. For every Big Business that worries about the anti-trust law there are many small businesses that worry about the sheriff. And perhaps it is the little business that moves in the most mysterious ways its wonders to perform...
American International Co. $ 6.24 Atlas Powder Company 6.50† Bethlehem Steel Checker Cab Mfg. Corp. Detroit Edison Du Pont de Nemour & Co. Erie Railroad General Cigar Co. Inc. Gillette Razor Hudson Motors National Biscuit Packard Pore Marquette R J Reynolds US Steel Corp. Ward Baking Corp.** Western Union Woolworth Wrigley
Architects can perhaps perform the miracle of making steel stands a thing of beauty, harmonizing with the present concrete stadium. But at this moment it looks as if all that could be accomplished would be the perpetuation of an ugliness which may have been excusable in temporary wooden stands because they were known to be a makeshift...
...question of filling the open end of the stadium with a structure of beauty or one which may be a blot upon the landscape is invested with a public interest. The Harvard decision in favor of steel stands is distinctly disappointing, being quite out of line with the rest of Harvard's building program. Boston Traveler...