Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proponents knew the odds were all against their ousting him. The "liquor business" charge has so often been brought against Mr. Mellon and so often answered† that there is little legislative health in it. And the "business or commerce" charge- Mr. Mellon's proximity to oil, steel, aluminum and other corporations-has repeatedly-failed to arouse major excitement for the simple reason that only alarmists have bothered to question Mr. Mellon's integrity. Mr. Mellon's spokesmen in the Senate let the McKellar resolution go through with patient annoyance. They expected the ouster movement would...
Workmen were last week repairing the ventilating system of the Senate chamber when one of them, by accident, dropped a heavy piece of steel. It fell upon the flat, glass-paneled ceiling of the Senate and went crashing through to the floor. Dismayed, the workmen hurried to see which of the 48 stained-glass State seals in the Senate skylights had been broken. Awestruck, they found that the missle had missed all the State seals, missed also the figures of Peace, Industry, Valor, etc., and had singled out for destruction the great Horn of Plenty from which gifts of flowers...
...Apropos seemed an editorial of last week in the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung of Düsseldorf, a paper generally considered the mouthpiece of one of the German delegates at Paris, Dr. Albert Voegler, Member of the Board of the Ruhr Steel Cartel...
Most of the bonds went to Andrew Carnegie, who intended to make Mr. Morgan pay well for his dream. The stock was full of water and sold as low as $3 per share in 1904. But back, back, back into the company went the earnings. In fact, Steel's accountants even provided for sinking funds before figuring their earnings. Thus inevitably was the Morgan faith in the U. S. justified and long since has U. S. common sold steadily above par and above its preferred. The only question now is "when will...
...Myron C. Taylor, U. S. Steel man, and Mr. Sabin are also said to have been the merger master-minds...