Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Balniel, 38, is the eldest son and heir of the 27th Earl of Crawford. He is a director of the Bank-of-England-controlled $28,000,000 Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd. He is a member of Parliament, one of 415 Conservative Party members who give Prime Minister Chamberlain his majority, crisis after crisis. So are two of his brothers-in-law. So is his wife's brother-in-law and the ex-husband of another of her sisters. So are the husbands of three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related...
Heavy Industry. Coal, iron & steel and engineering firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett...
Copyreader. Sitting in the slot of the Beaumont, Texas, Enterprise is a husky, blue-eyed, partly deaf Irishman named Carl Shannon, who left a good job as draftsman and designer in a Pittsburgh steel mill to become a newspaperman. After a turn in Pittsburgh he went to New York, landed a job as ship's news reporter by swearing he had been a ship's news reporter in Denver. From New York he went to Albany, then took to the road, working sometimes as reporter, sometimes as slot-&-rim man. He followed carnivals as pressagent, married a carnival...
With corn at 40?, farmers who had borrowed 57? a bushel on 257,000,000 bu. started to unload about 100,000,000 bu. on Commodity Credit Corp. Hurriedly Secretary Wallace bought steel bins to hold 50,000,000 bu., hoped this would prop up the sorry corn market...
Poultrymen wish the New Deal would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...