Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small institute of landscape architecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Lake Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour...
...Steel, from 162¾ to 238 5/8, or $609,299,316 increase...
What used to be the steel trust appeared last winter before the House Ways & Means Committee, declared that the 1922 tariff act had caused the steel industry to pay $45,000,000 in manganese duties without domestic production being benefited or improved. The House was asked to free-list this ore. The House refused...
Chairman of the metals subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract...
...Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham was one of the two Republicans whose vote change caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate...