Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several shadows thrown before the Republic merger event was last month's (TIME, Nov. 4) resignation of Tom Mercer Girdler from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh's great "family" steel company. Last year Jones & Laughlin made Mr. Girdler president, having heard that the Eaton interests were negotiating with him, so that his departure from Jones & Laughlin indicated that Mr. Eaton had some large fish ready to fry. Mr. Girdler, who has spent nearly 30 years in various steel mills, swears vigorously and always keeps his hat on, to be ready for emergency calls...
Perhaps a very farsighted steel observer could have forecast the Republic merger as long ago as April 1928, when another steel man in whom Mr. Eaton was interested also changed jobs. This man was Elmer T. McCleary, who, after 22 years with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, left its vice-presidency to become president of Republic Iron & Steel. Under the McCleary administration Republic acquired Sheet & Tube, and in 1929 will more than double its 1928 earnings. McCleary habit: to work 12 hours a day 365 days a year. McCleary pride: the new electrical welding process which Republic acquired in taking over...
Essential to Mr. Eaton is the assistance of able steel men for Mr. Eaton knows little of steel and, like a chemist's catalyst by his mere presence hastens reactions in which he has otherwise no part. "I am,'' he himself has said, "only an investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options...
...week the preferred stock, now dividendless, sold as low as 21 while the common, now Durantless, went to 4. Although both stocks had already suffered during the break, last week's decline had its own reason-"friendly" receivers were appointed as the result of a petition by Bethlehem Steel Corp., said to be a $400,000 creditor. In this receivership there was not evident the aftermath of the market's break, as had been true in the Fox trusteeship (TIME, Dec. 16), nor of poor trade conditions as in the American Piano receivership (see p. 30). There...